The Niagara International Transportation Technology Coalition (NITTEC), the NFTA, and the New York State Department of Transportation are pleased to announce the successful launch of AllRoads, NITTEC’s multi-agency, technology-enabled, integrated regional mobility management system, for the Buffalo-Niagara region in Western New York and Southern Ontario. 

In addition to the launch of the system, the project was recently awarded the Outstanding Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Project of the Year from the Intelligent Transportation Society of New York (ITS-NY) at the 2024 ITS-NY Thirty-First Annual Meeting & Technology Exhibition on June 13, 2024. 

NITTEC, NFTA, and NYSDOT received one of the first Advanced Transportation Congestion Management Technology Deployment Project (ATCMTD) grants from the Federal Highway Administration in 2016 and were awarded over $7.8 million in funding.  After extensive planning with regional stakeholders and the consulting team from WPS, the Coalition decided the best use of the funds would be to focus on bridging the gaps between the region’s various sources of transportation data and creating a central repository of traveler information.

The AllRoads system, built on Parsons’ artificial intelligence (AI) based Smart Mobility Solution, iNET®, ensures a seamless integration with the existing advanced traffic management system (ATMS), transit operations, and traffic signal network. The integrated regional mobility management system furthers NITTEC’s goal of safe and efficient regional transportation by optimizing data transparency and collaboration across agencies in the Buffalo-Niagara region. The system improves the quality and timeliness of data to allow transportation operators to better coordinate incident management and response. It also includes the integration of real-time road weather information on critical routes and a live regional traffic model. This model feeds a decision support module allowing for advanced, rapid response to traffic events as they unfold.

The Smart Mobility Solution leverages a data hub for real-time interagency information sharing and includes an AI and micro-simulation-based integrated decision support system (DSS) to generate predictive traffic management strategies to improve regional mobility and streamline coordinated responses across stakeholders.  The system will balance multimodal demand across the Niagara Frontier border crossings, improve freight operations by providing targeted information to drivers, use improved weather information in traffic management, and improve regional mobility by expanding integrated corridor management activities.

The core systems are supplemented by multiple pilot deployments of field equipment and new systems to fill gaps in the region’s data. This includes truck parking data, transit park-and-ride occupancy, and arterial traffic information.