The California Statewide ITS
Architecture represents the consensus input of a diverse set of
stakeholders, encompassing traffic, transit, public safety, and many other
operating agencies. It includes both public and private sectors and
spans the organizations that manage, support, or are impacted by statewide
or interregional intelligent transportation services in California.
| Stakeholder |
Description |
| AMTRAK |
AMTRAK provides passenger rail service across the country. |
| Archive Data Users |
Users (and their systems) of general archive data. |
| Arizona DOT |
Arizona Department of Transportation |
| BART |
Bay Area Rapid Transit |
| Bay Area Transit Agencies |
Transit agenices operating in the Bay Area |
| BCBP |
Bureau of Customs and Border Protection |
| BLM, Fish and Game, Parks and Rec |
Represents a group of stakeholders responsible for parks, recreation areas, and wildlife areas. |
| Bureau of Land Management |
California Bureau of Land Management, responsible for public lands including National Monuments and wilderness areas. |
| California CVO Council |
CVO interests in the state |
| California Department of Forestry |
The Department of Forestry and Fire Protection protects the people of California from fires, responds to emergencies, and protects and enhances forest, range, and watershed values providing social, economic, and environmental benefits to rural and urban citizens. |
| California DMV |
California Department of Motor Vehicles |
| California Fish and Game |
California Fish and Game manages wildlife areas throughout the state. |
| California Highway Patrol (CHP) |
California Highway Patrol provides public safety services on state roads. |
| California Parks and Recreation |
California Parks & Recreation manage California State Parks. |
| Caltrain |
Caltrain operates rail service to San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties. It is administerd by a Joint Powers Board made up of representatives of the three counties. |
| Caltrans |
California Department of Transportation |
| Caltrans HQ |
Headquarters departments and sections. |
| Caltrans, District 1 |
Caltrans District 1 covers Del Norte, Humboldt, Mendocino, and Lake Counties. |
| Caltrans, District 10 |
Caltrans District 10 covers |
| Caltrans, District 11 |
Caltrans District 11 covers San Diego County |
| Caltrans, District 12 |
Caltrans District 12 covers Orange County |
| Caltrans, District 2 |
Seven northeastern counties are located within the district's boundaries which include Lassen, Modoc, Plumas, Shasta, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity. District 2 also services portions of Butte and Sierra Counties. |
| Caltrans, District 3 |
District 3 Counties - Butte, Colusa, El Dorado, Glenn, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento. Sierra, Sutter, Yolo and Yuba |
| Caltrans, District 4 |
Caltrans District 4 covers Alameda, Contra Costa, Sonoma, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano and Napa counties. |
| Caltrans, District 5 |
Caltrans District 5 covers Monterey, San Benito, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz counties. |
| Caltrans, District 6 |
Caltrans District 6 is headquartered in Fresno. This geographically diverse district is the second largest of the 12 Districts statewide, stretching from the southernmost part of Yosemite National Park in the north to the Mojave Desert. It includes Madera, Fresno, Tulare, Kings and Kern counties. |
| Caltrans, District 7 |
Caltrans District 7 covers Los Angeles and Ventura counties |
| Caltrans, District 8 |
Caltrans District 8 covers Riverside and San Bernardino Counties in southern California. |
| Caltrans, District 9 |
Caltrans District 9 covers Inyo and Mono counties, and parts of Kern and San Bernardino counties. |
| Caltrans, Regional, and Local Stakeholders |
This stakeholder group reprsents state, county, and local governments. |
| Central California Transit Agencies |
Transit agencies operating in Central California. |
| Correctional Facilities |
Represents agencies in charge of correctional facilities at federal, state, or county level. |
| County Public Safety Agencies |
Agency responsible for Sheriff, Fire, and possibly EMS at the county level. |
| County Public Works |
This represents county public works departments throughout the state. |
| FMCSA |
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration |
| IFTA, Inc. |
The corporation that administers the IFTA Clearinghouse. |
| IRP, Inc. |
The corporation that administers the IRP Clearinghouse for netting of registration funds. |
| Local Government |
Represents municipal and county government. |
| Local Media |
Represents the broadcast or print media in a region. |
| Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority |
LAMTA is the primary transit agency of LA county. |
| Metrolink Rail Agency |
Metrolink is the southern california regional rail authority. |
| Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) |
MTC is the transportation planning organization for the Bay Area |
| Mexican Transportation Agency |
Represents the national or regional transporation agency of Mexico. |
| Municipal Public Safety Agencies |
Public safety agencies at the municipal level. |
| National Park Service/U.S. Forest Service |
Federal agencies, part of Interior Department responsible for National Parks and National Forests |
| National Weather Service |
US Agency, part of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, that is responsible for national and local weather |
| Nevada DOT |
Nevada Department of Transportation |
| Northern California Toll Agencies |
Toll agencies operating in northern California. |
| Northern California Transit Agencies |
Transit agencies operating in northern California |
| Operation Respond Institute |
The Operation RespondŽ Institute (ORI) is a not-for-profit, public/private partnership serving the emergency response community with time and lifesaving technology tools to combat safety and security incidents occurring on North American railroads and highways. |
| Oregon Department of Transportation |
Oregon Department of Transportation |
| Other States DOTs |
Represents department of transportations in states outside California. |
| Port Facilities |
Represents intermodal port facilities throughout the state. |
| Private ASPs |
Organizations that provide traveler information to end users including telematics service providers such as ATX, OnStar, AAA, and Cross Country, Microsoft (http://autos.msn.com), Tribune Interactive, Cox Interactive, Iteris, TANN, and other traveler information web sites too numerous to list. See also the "Private ISP" element that covers those organizations that collect and distribute traveler information to ASPs. |
| Private Carriers |
Private commercial vehicle carriers |
| Private ISPs |
Organizations that collect, process, and supply traffic data and traveler information to Application Service Providers (ASPs) who in turn provide the information to end users. ISPs include Tele Atlas and Westwood One, TANN, and Iteris. As an example of the configuration of these systems, Tele Atlas/Westwood One California operations centers are located in San Francisco, San Jose, Sacramento, Fresno, Los Angeles and San Diego. Each operations center covers a very large region. For example, the Los Angeles and San Diego centers cover all of Southern California. The Sacramento center covers from the Bay Area to Lake Tahoe and as far south as Merced. |
| Private Rail Operators |
Operators of private freight rail |
| Regional Planning Agencies |
Regional planning agencies such as Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs). |
| San Francisco MUNI |
City of San Francisco transit agency. |
| Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) |
Transporation planning organization for Southern California |
| Southern California Toll System Agencies |
Toll agencies operating in southern California |
| Southern California Transit Agencies |
Transit agencies operating in southern California |
| Special Police |
Police forces other than state, county or municipal. This stakeholder includes Fire Districts and Coast Guard, This also includes public safety or enforcement aspects of California Fish & Game, National Park Service, U.S. Fish & Wildlife and U.S. Forest Service. |
| State Office of Emergency Services |
California Governor's Office of Emergency Services coordinates overall state agency response to major disasters in support of local government. The office is responsible for assuring the state's readiness to respond to and recover from natural, manmade, and war-caused emergencies, and for assisting local governments in their emergency preparedness, response and recovery efforts. |
| Telematics Service Providers |
Agencies that provide Mayday and other special concierge services for their clients. These agencies will typically not be associated with a single county or district, but will interact with local agencies when their client's have an emergency in the region. Current examples of these agencies include OnStar, ATX Technologies, and AAA. |
| Toll Road Operators |
Agencies operating toll roads in the state. |
| Travelers |
Represents the traveling public. |
| U.S. Fish and Wildlife |
A bureau of the US Department of the Interior. |
| UC Berkeley |
University of California at Berkeley |
| US Customs |
An agency of the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection |
