The following is a listing of recent news items relating to the NTCIP.

Posted May 16, 2008
New NTCIP Signal Priority Working Group Co-chairs Appointed. (April 18, 2008) AASHTO, ITE, and NEMA were pleased to announce that the NTCIP Joint Committee chair, Ed Seymour, had appointed Jim Jarzab and John Thai as new co-chairs of the NTCIP Signal Control and Prioritization Working Group. The SCP WG is responsible for the NTCIP 1211, "Object Definitions for SCP."

Jim Jarzab is the Bus Signal Priority (BSP) Systems Engineering Manager at the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), in San Jose, California.

John Thai is the Principal Traffic Engineer at the City of Anaheim, California, and also serves in an ITE seat on the NTCIP Joint Committee.

Please join us in welcoming these new co-chairs. Their contact information is below.

James (Jim) Jarzab
Bus Signal Priority (BSP) Systems Engineering Manager
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA)
CMA-E, Bldg. B, Second Floor
3331 N 1st St
San Jose, CA 95134
phone (408) 321-5719

John Thai
Principal Traffic Engineer
City of Anaheim
201 South Anaheim Blvd, Suite 502
Anaheim, CA 92805
Phone (714) 765-5202

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Posted May 15, 2008
Five Additional PDF No-Cost NTCIP Standards Available. (May 14, 2009 - Rosslyn, Virginia) AASHTO, ITE, and NEMA announced that five additional NTCIP standards publications have been added to www.ntcip.org, and are available for no-cost downloading as Adobe PDF files. The standards are all Jointly Approved, and are now published to PDF.

The five are:

NTCIP 1104 version 01 -- Center-to-Center Naming Convention Specification.

NTCIP 1204 version 02 -- Object Definitions for Environmental Sensor Station v02. (NOTE -- 1204 version 03 is currently a Recommended Standard and out for SDO balloting and approval.)

NTCIP 1211 version 01 -- Object Definitions for Signal Control and Prioritization. (NOTE -- 1211 version 02 is in draft development.)

NTCIP 8004 version 01 -- Structure and Identification of Management Information (SMI). (NOTE -- 8004 version 02 is currently a Recommended Standard.)

NTCIP 8007 version 01 -- Testing and Conformity Assessment Documentation Within NTCIP Standards Publications.

An additional announcement will be made soon when the printed hardcopy editions are available. The Adobe PDF copies are available at no-cost for a limited time through support from the U.S. DOT / Research and Innovative Technology Administration, whose assistance is gratefully acknowledged.

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Posted January 9, 2008
Recommended Version of NTCIP 1204 v03. NTCIP Standards Bulletin B0127 reports that the Joint Committee on the NTCIP has accepted the "Environmental Sensor Station Interface Standard - version 03" as a Recommended Standard. The standards publication is NTCIP 1204 v03 in the 1200-series of NTCIP data dictionaries.

AASHTO, ITE, and NEMA are distributing copies to their members for ballot and approval.

NTCIP 1204 v03 defines how a management station interfaces with a field device to control and monitor pavement sensors, weather stations, air quality monitors, and other equipment for monitoring and responding to
environmental conditions using NTCIP-complianant communications.

A common ESS deployed by transportation system managers is the road/weather ESS. These ESS are used to collect information about road and weather conditions, such as precipitation, and air and surface temperatures. With the data returned by these ESS, transportation system managers can determine when there are hazardous travel conditions due to precipitation, fog, high winds, snow, ice or flooding. When travel becomes hazardous due to snow or ice, transportation system managers can dispatch road maintenance crews to treat the roads and remove snow and ice, if possible.

NTCIP 1204 v03 is a “major version” revision of the NTCIP 1204, which had its version v01 jointly approved in 1998, was amended with A1 in 2001, and had its version v02 jointly approved in April 2006. The major version v03 revision now includes Test Procedures.

NTCIP 1204 v03 was drafted by the NTCIP ESS Working Group, chaired by Gene Martin (Virginia DOT). The ESS WG has members from both the public and private sectors.

The Recommended Standard and Standards Bulletin are available in the Library. See the table of Document Links at http://www.ntcip.org/library/documents/.

All interested parties are encouraged to support the AASHTO, ITE, and NEMA members in their review, balloting, and approval of the Recommended Standard.

### Click here to read the Bulletin and the Document.

Posted December 12, 2007
NTCIP Joint Committee Announces 2008 Meeting Schedule. AASHTO, ITE, and NEMA are pleased to announce that during 2008, their Joint Committee on the NTCIP shall continue its scheduled one-hour teleconferences, generally on the third Thursday of each month. The scheduled teleconferences will start at 2:00 PM Eastern Time, and will be announced via the NTCIP listserve reflectors. Some alternate dates have been selected to avoid conflict with known meetings.

Two face-to-face (F2F) meetings have been scheduled for April and August.

Committee participants should calendar these selected dates. All dates are for teleconferences, except for April and August.

Jan 24, avoids TRB conflict
Feb 21
Mar 20
Apr 09, F2F meeting in Atlanta, 8:30 AM start; to Apr 10, end at noon
May 15
Jun 12, avoids TRB summer meetings
Jul 17
Aug 20, F2F meeting ICW ITE in Anaheim, start at noon; to Aug 21 end at 5
Sep 18
Oct 16
Nov --, no teleconference scheduled to avoid World Congress
Dec 11, avoids week prior to Christmas

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