How should States engage the private sector in the development of the regional architecture?
In many areas around the country, activities by private sector firms play a significant role in the implementation of ITS across a region. This is especially true in traveler information services. How States and other regional stakeholders interact with these private ventures will depend upon current and emerging business arrangements of the public agencies and the private firms. For example, many public agencies provide data or video information to private firms that may re-sell or re-convey the information to the general pubic or to specialized travelers. These sharing arrangements provide an excellent opportunity to engage the private firms in developing a regional ITS architecture. If there are no arrangements currently in place, the developers of a regional ITS architecture may wish to craft an initial version of their architecture that can be used to begin discussion with private sector firms. These discussions should include exploring ways that the private sector firms can enhan
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