OmniAir has a variety of initiatives that staff and members work on in response to requests from the Board of Directors or clients such as USDOT. Initiatives fall into four categories, all sharing the common theme of ‘DSRC,’ and supportive of OmniAir goals. Any OmniAir member may participate in any of the initiatives below. Please contact OmniAir for more information on existing initiatives or ideas for others that support the goals and objectives of the Consortium. Good ideas are welcome!
HARDWAREUSDOT Connected Vehicle Pilot Certification ProgramLead: Certification Committee Overview: Create the apparatus to provide an independent, third party certification of standards compliance and interoperability for 3,000 DSRC “Here I Am” devices being readied for a large scale pilot of DSRC technology. The task is to assure the user community of the technology’s integrity, performance and interoperability. Status: OmniAir is part of a 30-month Connected Vehicle Safety Pilot Program underway and projected to be completed by late 2013. The results of the project will inform an NHSTA regulatory recommendation on mandating in-vehicle safety technology. OmniAir Certification Services Inc. (OCS) Lead: Staff Status: The charter OCS Board was inducted in September 2010 and is organizing the corporation and plans to accept clients for specific certification services in mid-2011. Such clients include toll collection hardware suppliers and entities that process electronic transactions. The latter certification would be for compliance to OmniAir’s EPSNIS. |
APPLICATIONSElectronic Payment Services National Interoperability Specification (EPSNIS) Development & TestLead: EPS Committee, NYSBA, PANYNJ, JAFA, BancPass, FIS Overview: EPSNIS – a set of interface control documents to enable transaction processing interoperability across operators and competition in the provision of payment services. The specification is being tested for both 915MHz & 5.9GHz systems to prove its integrity in a mixed-use ETC environment. Status: Draft specification is under review and testing is underway at NYSBA. The project’s scheduled completion is summer 2011. Connected Vehicle Transactions Concept of Operations (USDOT) Lead: EPS Committee, BAH, D’Artagnan Consulting Overview: This concept of operations for national transaction processing and management for the ‘connected vehicle,’ focuses on above lane-level aspects of Connected Vehicle Transaction architecture. Status: The final deliverable is expected summer 2011 in parallel with Lockheed Martin’s completion of the Connected Vehicle Systems Engineering update. |
DEPLOYMENTConnected Vehicle Mobility PilotLead: Deployment Committee Overview: Proposal to advance the deployment of DSRC-based Connected Vehicle Technologies in a complex, multifaceted location, the Denver metropolitan area – and improve mobility, the environment and safety for transportation users. The pilot would show how connected vehicle technologies can combine to uniquely contribute to safety, congestion, and traffic management goals and enable other communication protocols and services to work better Status: The Committee is working with CDOT to prepare the pitch document and will begin building institutional support in 2011 with the expectation of a USDOT Mobility Pilot in 2012. |
EDUCATION & OUTREACHPapers, Presentations & Educational MaterialsOmniAir staff and members write Connected Vehicle and related articles for leading magazines and journals and make presentations at major transportation events year round. |