| Focus Area | Description |
| Cooperative Intersection Collision Avoidance Systems | Intersection collision avoidance systems use both vehicle-based and infrastructure-based technologies to help drivers approaching an intersection understand the state of activities within that intersection. Cooperative intersection collision avoidance systems (CICAS) have the potential to warn drivers about likely violations of traffic control devices and to help them maneuver through cross traffic. Eventually, CICAS may also inform other drivers (i.e., potential victims) about impending violations as well as identify pedestrians and cyclists within an intersection. |
| Emergency Transportation Operations | The Emergency Transportation Operations initiative is designed to support these types of incidents. The outcome of this initiative will be the tools, techniques, demonstrated benefits, technical guidance, and standards necessary for state and local agencies and their private sector partners to effectively manage "no notice" evacuations. |
| Mobility Services for All Americans | The Mobility Services for All Americans initiative will build upon several past and current USDOT-led activities to increase mobility and accessibility for the transportation disadvantaged and the general public, and achieve more efficient use of federal transportation funding resources through technology integration and service coordination. |
| Integrated Corridor Management Systems | Through the Integrated Corridor Management Systems initiative, the USDOT will provide guidance to assist agencies in implementing Integrated Corridor Operations, create supporting analysis tools, approaches, and technical standards, and demonstrate the value of Integrated Corridor Management. |
| Integrated Vehicle Based Safety Systems | Through the Integrated Vehicle Based Safety Systems initiative, the USDOT is seeking to establish a partnership with the automotive, commercial vehicle, and transit vehicle industries to accelerate the introduction of integrated vehicle-based safety systems into the Nation's vehicle fleet. |
| Nationwide Surface Transportation Weather Observing and Forecasting System -- Clarus | The activities of the Nationwide Surface Transportation Weather Observing and Forecasting System – Clarus initiative will develop and demonstrate an integrated surface transportation weather observing, forecasting and data management system, and establish a partnership to create a Nationwide Surface Transportation Weather Observing and Forecasting System. |
| Next Generation 9-1-1 | The Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG 9-1-1) initiative will establish the foundation for public emergency communications services in a wireless mobile society. |
| Universal Electronic Freight Manifest | The Electronic Freight Manifest Initiative will assist in making these improvements through the development of a common electronic freight manifest. |
| Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII) | To save lives and prevent injuries on roadways, communication between vehicles and between vehicles and the roadside are required. Such advanced, wireless communication is supported by Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC), a tool approved for licensing by the FCC in 2003. |