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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
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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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Baltimore Regional Operations Coordination (B-ROC)
Projectv
The initiation of the B-ROC Project resulted from a recommendation by the Metropolitan Baltimore ITS Partnership to the Baltimore Regional Transportation Board (BRTB), the MPO for the Baltimore region. Formed as a regional operations coordination committee, B-ROC first met in September 2000 to focus on enhancing traffic management operations through coordination among jurisdictions, agencies, modes, and facility types. The overall project has been divided into two phases. The first phase involves developing a framework for the enhanced coordination of regional transportation-related operations. The second phase involves the implementation of projects.
B-ROC addresses coordination issues such as:
- Incidents and congestion without boundaries;
- The need to resolve conflicting goals and missions among operating agencies;
- The need to enhance mutual support and resource sharing among agencies; and
- The need to decide lines of authority.
 Structure
- More than 20 jurisdictions and agencies participate in B-ROC, with the goals of enhancing operational coordination for traffic incident management among jurisdictions, agencies, modes, and facilities, and to develop a regional framework for operations. These agencies include police, fire, and public works from several Maryland cities and counties, as well as various Maryland transportation agencies and other Federal, State, and local organizations.
Processes
- B-ROC strives to promote interagency coordination across modes and jurisdictions to facilitate better intermodal planning and incident response.
Products
- The first phase of B-ROC comprised the development of a framework for enhanced coordination of regional transportation-related operations.
- The project will define operations goals, objectives and needs, functional requirements for operations, an operations framework, and an implementation plan that includes a prioritized list of projects.
Resources
- B-ROC was formed to enhance mutual support and resource sharing among operating agencies.
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Presentation made to Linking Planning and Operations Working Group, December 2001.
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