Iways Architecture
Under the Alaska Iways Architecture (AKIA), the ADOT&PF is attempting to develop an integrated, statewide Iways effort. The AKIA will serve to coordinate and integrate existing and future Iways projects so that they function as a technologically compatible, complementary system.
The AKIA conforms to the broader National ITS Architecture, which is used as a framework for the design, development and implementation of Intelligent Transportation System technologies.
ADOT&PF updated the AKIA in 2008. If you’d like an introduction to AKIA, please download the Summary Report.
| Section | Explanation |
|---|---|
| Summary Report | Overview of the Alaska Iways
Architecture. (12 pgs) |
| User Needs | The User Needs chapter identifies and documents
the needs and desires that would enhance Alaska’s
transportation system. |
| User Services | Identifies Intelligent Transportation
System (ITS) user services from the National ITS
Architecture that could be deployed to meet the
transportation user needs in Alaska |
| ITS Long Range Vision | Identifies the 7 program areas in which ITS
technologies can provide significant benefit.
To envision how these technologies come together
to satisfy transportation user needs, this chapter
concludes with hypothetical but realistic narratives
of how users may encounter and benefit from these
technologies when traveling in Alaska. |
| Operational Concept | An ITS Operational Concept
is a high-level understanding of how agencies
and the various ITS elements they own and operate
interconnect to form an integrated “system
of subsystems”. This chapter provides agencies
the ability to easily understand where in the
regional context they fit in terms of performing
ITS activities. |
| Physical Architecture | In words and pictures, it describes the functional
framework for ADOT&PF operations and interaction
with other public agency and private sector partners |
| Implementation Plan | Defines a set of projects proposed
for implementation in Alaska over the next ten
years, and provides the criteria used to prioritize
these projects. Includes summary of SAFETEA-LU,
Section 1201, Real-Time System Management Information
Program. |
| ITS Standards | Defines ITS Standards and provides the applicable
ITS standards by ITS elements and architecture
flows from the Alaska Iways Architecture. |
Questions about the Iways program or website?
Lisa Idell-Sassi
dot.iways@alaska.gov
907-465-8952