The advanced transportation controller (ATC) is a standardization effort being undertaken by the

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as part of their Intelligent transportation system (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

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

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

External links

Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)
ATC web site. {{US-gov-stub Intelligent transportation systems Free software projects