regional traffic operators committee

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Regional Traffic Operators CommitteeFebruary 23rd

ITE/IMSA Joint Conference

Stephanie Rossi, Puget Sound Regional CouncilAileen McManus, King County Traffic EngineeringJill MacKay, IBI Group

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Presentation Outline

RTOC Background: Stephanie Rossi

Regional Concept of Operations: Jill MacKay

Regional ITS Implantation Plan: Aileen McManus

Next Steps Questions

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Puget SoundRegional Traffic Operators

Committee

Stephanie Rossi, PSRC

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Moving towards Regional Operations

•Regional transportation financial constraints & public’s frustration

•2006 NTOC Traffic Signal Report Card: D- grade for entire USA

•Spurred local, FHWA interest, led to regional assessment – completed 11/06

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Puget Sound Regional Signal Review

Also need Regional:• Funding• Information Sharing• Training • Performance

Monitoring • Uniformity Guidance

“Build stronger regional leadership”

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Regional Traffic Operations Committee (RTOC) Puget Sound Regional Council Committee Promoting a collaborative approach to

regional traffic operations with emphasis on:

– Traffic signal coordination;– Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)– Regional traffic operations (arterial &

freeway)

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RTOC Membership Summary

Participants include King, Pierce, Snohomish, and Kitsap County, WSDOT, FHWA and over 30 local jurisdictions.

Liaisons from transit, freight and emergency management

Reports to the Puget Sound Regional Council Transportation Policy Board

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Why Regional Coordination?

Facts:

• Arterials cross jurisdictional boundaries

• Arterials carry approximately 50% of the region’s Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT)

• Most jurisdictions maintain and operate their own signals on these arterials.

• Revising signal timing in one jurisdiction affects traffic flow in the next.

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Regional Coordination Issues

Jurisdictions have varying: • Operational Standards

• Maintenance standards

• Operational budgets

• Signal controllers(equipment and software varies)

• Staffing levels

• Staffing Expertise

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Regional Coordination Issues

Operating expenses can be lacking for:• Signal timing plans

• Timing plan implementation

• Real time Monitoring

• Timing plan updates

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RTOC Projects Underway

Regional Concept of Transportation Operations: Primary focus is on regional coordination of signal operations.

Outcomes:– Strategies for developing a regional signal

coordination program: administration, funding, operations and maintenance,

– Memorandum of Agreement template to streamline future projects.

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RTOC Projects Underway

Regional Intelligent Transportation Systems Implementation Plan (RITSIP): Joint vision for investments across jurisdictional and institutional boundary lines.

Outcomes:– Multijurisdictional, corridor-based approach,– Agreement on key arterial corridors,– Regional high-priority project list,– Cooperation in pursuing funding, project

implementation, and operations

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Regional Concept of Operations

Jill McKay, IBI Group

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What is an RCTO?

Regional Concept of

Transportation Operations

“A management tool to assist in

planning and implementing management

and operations strategies in a

collaborative and sustained manner”

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What are characteristics of an RCTO?

Program based, not project based Strategies, not technologies Emphasis on performance measures Geographical scope may vary Specific to a given functional area

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What other jurisdictions have implemented an RCTO?

Framework:– Maricopa County (Phoenix), AZ– Bay Area, CA

Pilot Cities:– Portland, OR: Traveler Information & Incident Management– Detroit, MI: Freeway & Arterial Operations– Tucson, AZ: Arterial Operations, Traveler Information,

Work Zone Management– Hampton Roads, VA: Incident Management

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What is the approach for the Puget Sound Region?

Focus on Arterial Signal Operations Develop Operational Strategy for RITSIP

Projects Emphasis on Coordination, Communication

and Demonstrable Benefits

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Vision, Mission, Goals, Objectives and Performance Measures (oh my)

Vision:“An efficient, safe, reliable, environmentally-sensitive

and seamless surface transportation system, brought about through inter-agency coordination and partnerships in the Puget Sound Region.”

Mission:“The RTOC seeks to collaboratively apply advanced

technologies and transportation management techniques to operate, maintain and integrate a regionally-coordinated freeway and arterial network.”

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How will we get there?

Best (“better”) Practices– Monroe County, NY– Denver Region COG– Pima COG– Metropolitan Washington COG– SE Michigan COG

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Regional Strategy for Arterial Corridor Operations

Signal Timing Guidelines– Overall Approach– Timing Plan Development and Maintenance

Relationships and Procedures– Agreements– Off Hours Operations– Incidents– Implementation, Evaluation and Updates– Transit, Freight, Emergency Management Coordination

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Next Steps and Resource Arrangements– Near term implementation plan for RITSIP

projects

Memorandum of Agreement– MOA template to facilitate and streamline

interagency agreements

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Regional ITS Implementation Plan

Aileen McManus: King County DOT

Co-Chair: Regional Traffic Operations Committee

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Background RITSIP Deliverables RITSIP Corridors RITSIP Corridor Attributes Next Steps

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Background: Many jurisdictions are implementing ITS

improvements within their jurisdiction Individual ITS Strategic or Implementation

Plans Large ITS projects in the region: Active

Traffic Management (ATM), Integrated Corridor Management (ICM)

Major construction projects on the freeway system

King County received grant funding for a Regional ITS Implementation Plan

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RITSIP: Joint vision for ITS investments across jurisdictional and institutional boundary lines.

Deliverables Key Corridors for ITS/Operational Improvements ITS Implementation Plan

• Corridor inventory, needs and costs Communication Plan

• Center to Center and Center to Field Regional Advanced Traveler Information and Conditions Reporting system

• Integrating with revised WSDOT site for a single location for traffic information.

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Regional ITS

Corridors

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Corridor Criteria

Freight Route

Transit Route

Multijurisdictional

V/C Ratios

Regionally Significant State Highway or Highway of Statewide Significance

Arterial Classification

Vehicle Miles Traveled

Serving Urban Centers

Alternate Route

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Top 25 Regional ITS Corridors

5 Snohomish County

4 Pierce County

1 Kitsap County

15 King County

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Equipment Inventory

Inventory of Top 25 Routes Fiber Optic Cable Cameras Signal Controller/Cabinet type Connected to Central System Control Coordinated System Type of Coordination Other Existing ITS Devices

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Inventory Project Map, Example

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Regional ITS Corridor Elements

Signal Interconnect via fiber optic cable Multijurisdictional coordination of signals

– Incident, evacuation, and construction detour timing plans

Real time traveler information (before and during trip) Remote operation of corridor from a Traffic

Management Center(s) Ability to share data, video and possibly operation of

corridor with other agencies Transit signal priority where applicable Performance measurement ability

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Signal Interconnect via Fiber Optic Cable

Ethernet Modems

Communication Cabinet

Patch Panel

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Multi-jurisdictional Coordination• Some Controller Changeout necessary

• Traffic System Modeling

• Agreed Upon Operational standards

Traconex Econolite ASC 2

Eagle M50 Econolite ASC 3

Example Controllers

Naztec 2070 Quixote

Signal Timing Software & Signal Timing Software & SimulationSimulation

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Real Time Traveler Information

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REAL TIME TRAVEL TIME

License Plate Readers Travel Time Video Cameras

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FLOW MAPS

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VMS SIGNS

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Corridor Operation and Monitoring

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Example of Real time Traffic Management within Puget Sound Region

Transit Signal Priority

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Video/Data SharingWSDOT Traffic Busters

• 1 Gigabyte Bandwidth

• Use of existing WSDOT fiber infrastructure

• Video Sharing among 22 jurisdictions

• Grant funded WSDOT project

• Project is in design phase

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RITSIP Next Steps

• Complete inventory of 25 corridors

• Complete cost estimate for 25 corridors

• Provide Communication review and proposal for the corridors

• Regional Advanced Traveler Information and Conditions Reporting system

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What’s happening RIGHT NOW??

Puget Sound Regional Call for projects Spring 2009– Members of RTOC sponsoring projects

… and for the long term: All RITSIP corridors input to Destination 2040

long-range plan.

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Questions?

ContactsStephanie Rossi: [email protected] McManus: [email protected] Jill MacKay: [email protected]

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