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Object-Oriented Software
With the variety of transportation software on the
market today, object-oriented software is critical to
systems integration. Delivering an overall architecture, object-oriented software provides the vehicle
for integrating proprietary protocols with emerging
standard interface protocols into a cohesive,
integrated system. The reuse of object-oriented
software provides Northrop Grumman’s partners
with reduced implementation costs, shorter
implementation times, rapid updates with new
technologies, and cost effective expandability.
Northrop Grumman IT has available software for
control and operations of closed circuit television
(CCTV), dynamic message signs, controller, and
traffic detector equipment from multiple manufacturers.
Technology Innovation
As a developer and integrator of high technology
products for the federal, state, and local government
markets, Northrop Grumman continually investigates new and emerging technologies for application to the transportation, public safety, and
homeland security needs of our customers.
Promising and cost effective technologies are
identified to our customer along with evaluations of
performance, applicability, and potential benefits
including life cycle costs.
For example, Northrop Grumman identified a
technology developed and used in Japan for the
detection and recording of incidents and near
incidents at traffic intersections. We worked with
the Commonwealth of Kentucky to deploy an auto
incident recording system consisting of video
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cameras, microphones, signal processors, and a
video recording device in the City of Louisville to
assist in gathering data at a high incident intersection within the city. Using the data captured,
accident re-constructionists were able to obtain
unbiased, accurate data to gain new insights into
driver behavior at the intersection and quickly
identify appropriate countermeasures to mitigate
incidents and near incidents. Improvements
implemented as a result of this technology have
significantly reduced the incident occurrence at this
intersection.
Northrop Grumman’s ITS solutions deliver
customized, fully integrated systems to address
complex, multi-agency, cross-jurisdictional
transportation challenges.
When America Needs Trusted
IT Solutions, We’re There
Northrop Grumman’s Information Technology
sector is a leading IT provider and systems integrator, with annual revenues of approximately $4
billion. For more than five decades, the company’s
trusted IT solutions have enhanced the work of
government and enterprise customers – and
improved the lives of the people they serve.
Delivering full life-cycle solutions, Northrop
Grumman meets the mission, enterprise, and
infrastructure needs of federal, civilian, defense,
intelligence, state and local government, commercial, and international clients. State and local
governments trust Northrop Grumman to provide
end-to-end solutions for information technology,
integrated justice, homeland security, public safety,
transportation, human services, and public health
initiatives.
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Intelligent
Transportation
Solutions
Helping America’s transportation services become safer
and more efficient
Transportation Systems (ITS) are helping
America’s transportation services become safer
and more efficient.
Saving time by easing commutes…quickly
rescuing traffic accident victims…helping parents
arrive at a soccer game or childcare center on
time…and making it simpler for travelers to find
their way. Northrop Grumman’s Intelligent
As more vehicles inundate the nation’s highways
each year, maintaining a safe, efficient, and
environmentally sound transportation system
becomes an increasingly daunting task for any
state and local government. Challenges raised by
prolonged rush hours, increased traffic congestion,
poor air quality, and inefficient incident response
times, have compelled traffic engineers
to seek new and innovative methods of managing
their transportation systems,
and they are turning to trusted partners like
Northrop Grumman to help.
Innovation characterizes Northrop Grumman’s
fully integrated suite of ITS applications. While
each of these management tools is powerful in its
own right, it is a blending of these systems into a
fully integrated, customized intelligent transportation management system and infrastructure that
provides optimum benefit.
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traveler who is more concerned with routing
decisions. We have worked closely with our
customers to ensure efficient and effective information processing and presentation to the ultimate
users.
Northrop Grumman’s design and integration of the
Advanced Transportation Management System
(ATMS) for the Georgia Department of Transportation for management of traffic in the Atlanta
End-to-end Transportation
Solutions Serving
Governments and Citizens
The Northrop Grumman portfolio of intelligent
transportation solutions provides accurate,
real-time collection, fusion, analysis, and dissemination of data resulting in improved motorist
safety, traffic flow, and air quality. By recognizing the management and coordination issues of
a system involving multiple agencies, Northrop
Grumman has successfully built systems serving
city, county, and state governments, and multistate metropolitan regions.
metropolitan region is but one example. To meet
the demands of this challenging region, an integrated, cooperative seven-center architecture was
developed including centers operated by the state,
five counties and the city of Atlanta. Integration of
these agencies allows for a coordinated regional
approach to incident and congestion mitigation
planning and response. The distribution system
design has allowed new jurisdictions and agencies
such as the regional transit authority and public
safety dispatch to be easily added.
Northrop Grumman, in conjunction with government partners, also implemented the first intelligent
transportation system in the nation to operate
seamlessly across state boundaries. We formed
a strong partnership with the state of Ohio, the
Commonwealth of Kentucky and local cities
precedented cooperation to address the challenges
of transportation management in the region.
As agencies implement intelligent transportation
solutions, they are finding a need to maximize the
exchange of information across regions and
jurisdictional boundaries. Northrop Grumman’s
ITS solutions integrate the communications
networks to facilitate and maximize multi-agency,
multi-jurisdictional operations, communications,
and collaboration.
Integration and Connectivity
Open Architecture
Flexibility, expandability, and supportability are
critical factors in the long-term viability of intelligent transportation systems. An approach that
utilizes previously invested human and material
resources and also minimizes the costs of development or modification, is a critical element of
Northrop Grumman’s ITS systems. Our system
designs are based on an open architecture,
standards-based approach and have been successful
in retaining and integrating elements of our
customers’ existing infrastructure in the overall
system architecture.
While it is critically important that traffic engineers
have the necessary tools to perform effectively, it is
equally imperative the traveling public is kept
aware of traffic conditions. Linking the transportation management to a variety of advanced traveler
information systems advises motorists of traffic
conditions and road reports in real-time. Northrop
Grumman is an industry leader in the integration of
transportation management systems coupled with a
broad range of traveler information systems.
Distributed Networks
Our ITS solutions first gather the necessary
information via traffic and roadway sensors, video
cameras and other devices. These systems then
rapidly combine the information, analyze it, and
provide the finding to those who need it—
managers of transportation operations
centers…emergency response dispatchers…and the
traveling public—through dynamic highway
messaging signs, radio, television, 511 Traveler
Advisory Telephone Systems, and the Internet.
The spirit of partnership has also been applied in
the development, implementation, and operations
of the Traffic Response and Incident Management
Assisting the River Cities or TRIMARC for the
states of Kentucky and Indiana in the Louisville –
Southern Indiana region. TRIMARC is a second
example of a Northrop Grumman designed and
implemented system working across state and other
jurisdictional boundaries.
Information Management and
Dissemination
At the heart of any successful management system
is the efficient, timely, and focused handling of
information. The needs of the transportation
managers, who are focused on traffic “flow
control,” are different from those of the individual
Linking the various modal information and
management systems provides inter-agency
cooperation as well as accurate travel options for
motorists. Northrop Grumman has coupled its
extensive experience in the design and construction
of public safety dispatch systems with its ITS
application expertise to provide an integrated
solution. Linking information held by public safety
and transportation management agencies enables
cooperative responses from multiple agencies—and
across jurisdictional lines. Emergency response
teams can be routed to the quickest way possible…
traffic signals can be overridden to support evacuations… traffic can be diverted away from
accidents.