Enhancing Electronic Highway Design Standards and Specifications

Overview

This paper provides an electronic highway specification development framework based on the Iowa Electronic Reference Library (ERL). Since there have been no major changes from its initial development in the past five years, the ERL uses the same technology. Many new technologies have come out in recent years. New technologies are explained that can adopt web services to enhance and improve the capabilities of electronic standards and specifications, including ERL. The paper describes and evaluates the existing Iowa ERL framework and provides (1) a framework for future development, and (2) recommendations for enhancing the existing system.