Implementing Innovation

In response to a Request for Interest from potential industry partners that CCIT posted on its Web site, CCIT is forging relationships with private-sector partners to implement a number of innovative technologies. One deployment currently underway is the Smart Parking project.

Research suggests that a lack of parking spaces at transit stations may discourage ridership. Smart Parking is a system that tells motorists if there are spaces available at a selected BART station. The CCIT project team will measure whether this system causes drivers to switch modes.

What is the role of CCIT?

CCIT was created to bring together industry, government and academia to facilitate deployment of transportation innovations that would help to advance Caltrans’ goals of increasing the state transportation system's safety, efficiency, productivity, flexibility and performance.

What are CCIT's objectives?

• Provide seed funding to match industry funding and jumpstart some of the most promising transportation innovations.
  
• Leverage its seed funding so that industry partners cost share appropriately in the development and initial deployment of these products and services.
  

Who will benefit?

Caltrans will benefit by improving its ability to implement transportation solutions more rapidly and with greater cost effectiveness by means of co-investments with industry.

The traveling public will benefit from improvements in transportation safety, efficiency and productivity as well as from wider and more flexible transportation choices.