Our Vision
Interoperable
Digital Infrastructure
How to build foundational technology that bridges stakeholders and enables each one to thrive in the shared mission to create sustainable, equitable mobility.
Key Roles & Players
Public Sector
Facilitate collaboration for a next generation climate and equity-focused transportation ecosystem with local, state, federal, and tribal governments to provide resources required to seed self-sustaining digital infrastructure.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Convene a cross section of private, public and academic institutions to inform how to design, build, fund, and operate digital infrastructure on a national and global scale.
Create safe and sustainable frameworks for federal government partners
Develop and nationalize standards for implementing digital infrastructure
Create funding and distribution vehicles tied specifically to those standards
Collaborate with that funding to implement those standards
Private Sector
Build robust, scalable, and performance-based solutions with reporting and accountability, empowering the public sector to effectively leverage federal funding to realize safety, equity, climate, economic goals.
Transportation Product Technology
Telecom
Transportation Operators
Cloud
Autonomous Vehicles
Embedded Hardware
Data
Traffic Systems
Timeline
2024
2025
Now
Private Sector continues to educate buyers through the sales process across all levels of government
Through 2023
Natl. Assoc. continue to advocate for IDI
Support USDOT to develop standards by 2024
January 2024
Allocation of funds by Congress (if USDOT does not fund)
Through 2024
Natl. Assoc. actively educates and convenes cities and states to train them so that they can successfully implement by Jan. 2025
December 2024
Allocation of funds by USDOT
January 2025
Implementation underway at City/State levels, leveraging the private sector tools required to operationalize DI
Building Blocks
Layer Name
Layer Description
Layer No.
A model similar to that which created the internet can be used to inform how existing systems assemble with new layers, forming a network of digital transportation infrastructure assets.
7
Digital Infrastructure Registry
Federated infrastructure registry, interoperability with Layer 5 systems within a Country, State, Region
Data & Data Services
6
Datasets, cloud-based services, historical vehicle movements, planning data, data storage and retrieval
Software Applications
5
Data analytics, asset management, GIS mapping tools, signal preemption, congestion management, pricing, GHG reduction
Transportation Operating Systems
4
High availability data processing and microservice delivery systems, global standard API’s. Learn more about Lacuna’s tOS approach
Networking
3
Telecom networking (5G, ethernet), software defined networks, networked control centers
2
Transportation Control Systems
Traffic cabinets, controllers, traffic cameras and supporting systems
Transportation Sensing & Services
1
Physical sensors including loop detectors, cameras, pucks, traffic signals, inductive charging
Physical
0
Area on, below, or above a public roadway, highway, street, sidewalk, curb, alley or utility easement
The Transportation Operating System
Like Windows on a laptop or iOS on a smartphone, a tOS is a digital foundation that upon which innovators and public agencies can:
Create new mobility technologies and integrate them into a seamless transportation universe
Develop new and enhanced experiences for users to get from Point A to Point B
Partner across sectors to tackle pressing societal issues like safety, sustainability, and equity
