Cross-cutting Issues

In November 2004, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, along with numerous
regional stakeholders approved and accepted the Schuylkill Expressway Corridor
Transportation Systems Management Strategic Deployment Plan (SECTSM). The plan laid
the framework for the implementation of ITS infrastructure as well as policies and procedures
for coordination between stakeholders. The plan’s goal was to facilitate more effective
management of one of the region’s most heavily traveled and congested corridors across
multiple municipal and disciplinary boundaries. Over the following five years, numerous
projects were undertaken to meet these goals including the largest expressway ITS project in
the Commonwealth, the implementation of ITS and signal coordination along arterial
diversion routes, standardization of ramp signage, implementation of innovative incident
management strategies, and the installation of a high speed communications network to better
facilitate traffic management and agency-to-agency coordination.

Jacobs

Presented at the ITS America Annual Conference and Exposition, May 3-5, 2010, Houston, Texas

The purpose of this paper is to provide the transportation community with a survey and analysis of state Departments of Transportation highway congestion/speed monitoring system and their corresponding data feeds. This survey and analysis can be used by state Departments of Transportation in initiating projects for acquisition and dissemination of congestion/speed data, or evaluating and perhaps modifying their present collection and dissemination efforts. The analysis addresses the requirements that Information Service Providers (ISPs) have for congestion/speed data.

Etak Incorporated

Presented at the 10th ITS Annual Conference and Exposition, May 1-4, 2000 Boston, MA

This study attempts to develop a Geographic Information System (GIS) based system utilized in identifying ramp site that can potentially benefit from ramp signaling. To achieve this, this paper first identifies and evaluates existing ramp signaling guidelines, and then establishes a set of warrants with consideration for their appropriateness and the availability of the required data. A web GIS system is developed that integrates data required for ramp signaling justification from various databases that currently exist and operate independently. The established warrants are included in the system to ease the analysis. The interface and functions of the system are described in this paper, followed by a case study from a set of ramps along a segment of I-95 in Miami-Dade County in Florida.

AECOM Technical Services, Inc.

Florida International University

Florida DOT

Presented at the 18th World Congress on ITS, October 2011, Orlando, Florida

The Connected Vehicle for Safety, Mobility and User Fee Project is an extensive demonstration project undertaken in parallel with other Connected Vehicle Programs.  MnDOT’s efforts include designing, building, and testing three new software applications that combine safety and mobility applications from the Connected Vehicle world with a mileage-based user fee (MBUF) application from the road user pricing world. The desire to mix Connected Vehicle and MBUF applications on a single commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) platform presents challenges to the architecture and design of the system as the functionality and needs of Connected Vehicle applications are different from the MBUF applications. This presentation will summarize the System Architecture/Design developed for this large field demonstration of MBUF.

Battelle

Presented at the 18th World Congress on ITS, October 2011, Orlando, Florida

The Connected Vehicle for Safety, Mobility and User Fee Project is an extensive demonstration project undertaken in parallel with other Connected Vehicle Programs.  MnDOT’s efforts include designing, building, and testing three new software applications that combine safety and mobility applications from the Connected Vehicle world with a mileage-based user fee (MBUF) application from the road user pricing world. The desire to mix Connected Vehicle and MBUF applications on a single commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) platform presents challenges to the architecture and design of the system as the functionality and needs of Connected Vehicle applications are different from the MBUF applications. This presentation will summarize the System Architecture/Design developed for this large field demonstration of MBUF.

Author: Matthew Burns

Presented at the 18th World Congress on ITS, October 2011, Orlando, Florida