The advanced transportation controller (ATC) is a standardization effort being undertaken by the United States Department of Transportation

United States Department of Transportation

The United States Department of Transportation is a federal Cabinet department of the United States government concerned with transportation. It was established by an act of Congress on October 15, 1966, and began operation on April 1, 1967...

 as part of their Intelligent transportation system

Intelligent transportation system

The term intelligent transportation systems refers to information and communication technology that improve transport outcomes such as transport safety, transport productivity, travel reliability, informed travel choices, social equity, environmental performance and network operation...

 (ITS) efforts. The ATC is being developed to provide an open platform for hardware and software for a wide variety of ITS applications. ATC has been identified as the highest priority standardization effort within the ITS community. It is being developed by the Institute of Transportation Engineers

Institute of Transportation Engineers

The Institute of Transportation Engineers or ITE is an international educational and scientific association of transportation professionals who are responsible for meeting mobility and safety needs. ITE was founded in 1930 as the Institute of Traffic Engineers and its first president was Ernest P...

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The ATC standard specifies a wide variety of hardware, the Linux

Linux

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operating system, and a defined API layer. ATC applications will use the API layer.

External links

• http://www.ite.org/standards/atc/ - Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) ATC web site.