Meeting_Body
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
AUGUST 18, 2016
Subject/Action
SUBJECT: REGIONAL INTEGRATION OF INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (RIITS) MODERNIZATION
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATIONS
Heading
RECOMMENDATIONS
Title
AUTHORIZE the Chief Executive Officer to:
A. AWARD a five-year firm fixed price contract, Contract No. PS520450021002, to Parsons Transportation Group, Inc., in the amount of $4,725,226 for the modernization of the Regional Integration of Intelligent Transportation Systems (RIITS); and
B. APPROVE Contract Modification Authority specific to Contract No. PS520450021002 in the amount of $1,000,000.
Issue
ISSUE
RIITS was designed, developed, and deployed as a demonstration project and prototype system in 2004 to integrate, store, share, host, operate, maintain and expand on the sharing of transportation related data in the region. Since the initial prototype deployment, there have been a number of individual component improvements; however, there has not been a complete systematic upgrade and modernization. Modernization is required to ensure the ability of RIITS to effectively and efficiently serve the transportation needs of the region, take advantage of new technologies and enable the exchange of new data as they become available.
Discussion
DISCUSSION
The RIITS program's roots can be traced back to the1984 Olympics when the need to coordinate inter-agency and inter-jurisdictional traffic management operations became essential. From that need and experience, and as a result of the implementation and deployment of intelligent transportation systems (ITS), which created real-time data, the idea of RIITS was conceived. In 2004, the three party Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Metro, the City of Los Angeles, Department of Transportation (LADOT) and Caltrans, District 7 was executed to officially designate/adopt RIITS as a program.
RIITS consists of a network, system, and administrative processes to exchange rea...
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