Commercial Operations

The Institute for Simulation and Training (IST) at the University of Central Florida (UCF) has a long history of conducting research and development in support of workforce needs for a variety of business sectors including NASA, education, military, law enforcement, emergency management, and transportation. IST’s training technology and simulation group has created online tutorials, lessons, tests, driving programs for driving simulators, and evaluation measuring instruments for state and federal agencies. In addition, IST has responded to Central Florida’s business community’s desire for a method to improve and train work readiness or soft skills to employees just joining the workforce, skills that that would lead to success in any field. This paper will:
• Discuss challenges and complexities inherent in providing enterprise level workforce training for the transportation community
• Describe current and former simulation and training technology projects we have worked on that blend new technologies and new educational practices for the workforce
• Propose a research and development strategy to modernize the transportation workforce

UCF/IST

Paper submitted for publication and presentation at the ITS America’s 2009 Annual Meeting and Exposition

This paper summarized the software design within the GLITS (Great Lakes ITS) I-75 Freeway and Arterial Integration project. The GLITS I-75 Project was a pilot project of the Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) aimed at coordinating freeway and arterial operations to quickly release freeway bottlenecks by optimizing the parallel arterial road’s capability to accommodate traffic diversion from the freeway. This software framework links two different types of traffic management systems (freeway and arterial) and smoothly integrates corresponding functions together, minimizing the changes of their existing architectures. The paper will include the following aspects: 1) Functions requested to coordinate the freeway and arterial operations within GLITS I-75 Project; 2) Existing software architecture analysis for both freeway management and arterial management; 3) Concept of the collaborative software framework; and 4) GLITS I-75 Project software design summary.

Iteris Inc.

Paper submitted for publication and presentation at the ITS America’s 2009 Annual Meeting and Exposition

The objective of this project was to implement and evaluate a low-cost system that can
accurately estimate arterial travel times (suitable for use in traveler information systems) with
only minor revisions to Mn/DOT’s standard detection layout. A secondary objective is to
provide automatic mainline turning movement counts at a level accurate enough for traffic
analysis and signal timing work. This project will use a University of Minnesota developed
technology (SMART-SIGNAL) that logs, at a high resolution, real-time intersection data,
including signal controller events and detector data, whereby arterial performance measures such as travel time, queue length and progression quality can be estimated. The system will be
evaluated by comparing manual traffic count and travel time data to the values estimated by the SMART SIGNAL system.

Minnesota Department of Transportation - Metro District

University of Minnesota

Alliant Engineering, Inc.

Paper submitted for publication and presentation at the ITS America’s 2009 Annual Meeting and Exposition

This paper/presentation looks at possible methods to increase capacity on existing
motorways by utilizing available shoulder space and/or reversing traffic lanes during
peak hours, and also reversing on/off current motorway ramp configurations (moving
to a system of off/on instead of on/off). This procedure results in capacity gains of
40-50% without widening the motorway, just using the space available in a more
efficient .manner, and utilizing ITS and “Smart” techniques to help make it happen.
The purpose of the paper/presentation is to more fully explore existing and proposed
Hard Shoulder and ITS (ATM, or Active Traffic Management) techniques in the UK,
Europe, and the US, and to help determine cost effective methods to adding capacity
to existing Motorways.

Jacobs Engineering

Paper submitted for publication and presentation at the ITS America’s 2009 Annual Meeting and Exposition

The Michigan IntelliDrive (also known as Vehicle-Infrastructure Integration or VII) Test Bed
has been operational for over 12 months over which time we have experienced some
challenges that resulted in valuable lessons learned related to the Installation and Operations
and Maintenance of the Test Bed. This paper provides a high level description of the MI Test
Bed, discusses some of the Installation challenges, provides an overview of the current
Operations and Maintenance procedures, and provides some recommendations for future
deployments.

Road Commission for Oakland County

Booz Allen Hamilton

Paper submitted for publication and presentation at the ITS America’s 2009 Annual Meeting and Exposition