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From the Director
Making
the Case for Regional Transportation Operations Collaboration and Coordination
The
Practice of Regional Transportation Operations Collaboration and Coordination
Regional
Transportation Operations Collaboration and Coordination and the Regional ITS
Architecture Development Process
A
Self-Assessment—Where Are You in Regional Collaboration and Coordination?
Applications
of Regional Operations Collaboration and Coordination Planning for Transportation
Operations:
TRANSCOM’s Regional Approach to Operations
Southern California ITS Priority Corridor
Maryland CHART
Capital Wireless Integrated Network (CapWIN)
Baltimore Regional Operations Coordination (B-ROC)
Project
Montgomery County ATIS
Cross-Jurisdictional Signal Coordination in Phoenix
San Antonio’s Advanced Warning to Avoid Railroad Delays
(AWARD) Project
San Antonio Medical Center Corridor Project
Phoenix’s Roadway Closure and Restriction System (RCRS)
Ventura County Fare Integration
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Southern
California ITS Priority Corridorii
Severe congestion and extreme air pollution have plagued the Southern California region for many years. No major additions are planned for the freeway network, and no increases are expected in transit utilization, so local transportation managers have been forced to turn to technical- and operations-based solutions to the region’s transportation problems. As one of the Nation’s four designated ITS Priority Corridors, the Southern California region receives Federal funds for ITS strategic planning and deployment. The ITS Priority Corridor Steering Committee, a partnership of 16 public entities, was formed to oversee the program, which allows:
- Multijurisdictional collaboration of multiple MPOs and state and local transportation agencies;
- Stakeholder participation;
- Movement from a major planning to an operations initiative;
- Integration of extensive ITS infrastructure, enabling the sharing of data and control among traffic management centers; and
- Generation of value-added regional traveler information.
As a result of corridor-wide ITS strategic planning and design carried out by the Priority Corridor Steering Committee, an intermodal transportation management and information system will be implemented that allows for the integration of legacy and future transportation management systems. This system will continuously evolve to fit with future transportation management initiatives.
 Structure
- Members of the Priority Corridor Steering Committee include Caltrans, the California Highway Patrol, six county transportation authorities/commissions, two MPOs, one air quality management district, and three regional ITS strategic planning subcommittees. Other participants include FHWA, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), and local transportation agencies.
- Because the Priority Corridor decision-making process was conducted outside the bounds of traditional transportation funding processes, the participants have had to work hard to sustain political buy-in and acquire champions for their programs.
- Because the operators and planners involved with the Steering Committee share a common vision for the improvement of Southern California’s transportation system through integrated ITS systems, they have agreed to expand the scope of the program to include all modes and all roads from Los Angeles to the Mexican border.
- The Priority Corridor has fostered new relationships among planners and operators, and promotes a common understanding of each other’s missions that has resulted in the movement of the regional initiative from major planning to operations.
Processes
- Because it enables the integration of traveler information from several sources, the Priority Corridor network provides a resource for traveler information. The network also links the four Caltrans TMCs, thereby enabling contingency control during emergencies so that one TMC can take control for another if needed.
- The Priority Corridor Committee assesses the value of ITS projects on a regional or corridor-wide basis.
Products
- The corridor management concept of operations calls for decentralized information sharing and an open system architecture that supports technical information sharing and the integration of different systems.
- The agencies that operate the transportation systems in Southern California acknowledge the concept of operations. The concept of operations creates the strategy to “develop once, deploy many times,” thereby allowing for cost sharing among the agencies.
Resources
- All groups involved in the Priority Corridor see a return on investment of their time and resources because they are now able to access each other’s data, share the costs of system upgrades and new technology applications, and communicate better among planners and operators.
- Funding has been made possible through Federal grants, to continue through 2002.
Performance
- The integration of the various agencies’ ITS infrastructures in the Priority Corridor enables data to be shared, linked, and made accessible to operators and planners throughout the region.
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“Organizing for Regional Transportation Operations: Southern California ITS Priority Corridor,” prepared for U.S. Department of Transportation by Valerie Briggs and Keith Jasper, August 2001.
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