Phoenix, AZ, - The nation's leading providers and users of surface transportation technologies known as Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) honored their community's greatest achievements on Monday, May 2. The Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America) presented the Best of ITS awards at the opening session of its 15th Annual Meeting and Exposition. California PATH won in the Research Category for its Smart Parking Research project in collaboration with BART and Caltrans. Awards were presented for eight categories: Best New Product, Service, or Application; Education and Training; Marketing and Outreach; Partnership Deployment (Public-Private and Private Sector); Partnership Deployment (Public Sector); Public Safety; Research Program; and Return on Investment.

"We'd like to know whether putting real-time information about the availability of BART parking along a congested freeway will help move people off the roads and into public transit," said Susan Shaheen, the project's principal investigator and program leader for policy and behavioral research at California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH), a unit of the Institute of Transportation Studies and headquartered at UC Berkeley. "Many drivers do not drive to a BART station because they assume the parking lot is full. Our research question is whether individuals will now use transit if they know that they will find an open spot at the station."

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