Cross-cutting Issues

This paper will present an overview of this Strategic ITS Plan with highlights on the unique aspects of the Plan as it relates to multi-modal operations. The focus will be on how the Plan achieves a balance between moving automobiles, transit vehicles, bicycles and pedestrians within the City. It will describe the core motives behind the Plan that defines $250M of initiatives over its 30-year horizon. It will also describe how Program’s specific needs were used to derive ITS initiatives that involve a great deal of multi-modal operations and system integration.

City and County of San Francisco

DKS Associates

Presented at the ITS America Annual Conference and Exposition, May 19-22, 2003 Minneapolis, Minnesota

The City and County of San Francisco’s SFgo Program is nearing completion of the design of a new State of the Art Transportation Management Center. As part of this process, a robust video and data system had to be designed that would meet the needs of the Department of Parking and Traffic operators, as well as linking in with the ITS field devices to be implemented as part of the overall Program’s Initial Phase.

This paper presents the video and data system that will be constructed as part of the Initial Phase, including the specific components within the control room and equipment room of the Transportation Management Center (TMC). Since the system will consist of an all-digital, all-Internet Protocol (IP) network operating over Ethernet, including digitized and encoded video, there are several options to consider when bringing the information to the TMC and sharing it with other City departments and regional and state partners. In addition, the system had to be flexible to accommodate changes to configurations during future phases, with a special emphasis on web-based applications for information sharing.

DKS Associates

City and County of San Francisco

Presented at the ITS America Annual Conference and Exposition, May 19-22, 2003 Minneapolis, Minnesota

The Chicago Traffic Management Center (Chicago TMC) Preliminary Design Study initiated by the City of Chicago Department of Transportation’s (CDOT) Bureau of Traffic (BOT)moves the City of Chicago (City) closer to coordinating vital traffic services and information in a more efficient manner. The improvement on existing services will provide the residents and visitors of the City more accurate travel information and improved mobility along City streets during special events and incidents by coordinating City transportation service personnel.

The goal of the study was to develop preliminary design documents at approximately the 30% level. These design documents would include both architectural and system specifications. This paper highlights the milestones of the Chicago TMC study and presents key information concerning the direction and design of the Chicago TMC.

Chicago DOT

Presented at the ITS America Annual Conference and Exposition, May 19-22, 2003 Minneapolis, Minnesota

The Condition Acquisition and Reporting System (CARS) was developed from the beginning to conform to developing national Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) standards that have been or are being produced by various Standards Development Organizations (SDOs). Over the course of the past year, the maturity of the system has reached a level where the Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT) is beginning to really experience the true benefits of the following these standards.

This paper reports on several key areas where standards have proven significant cost and efficiency benefits for Mn/DOT, including:

- Data exchange from two or more different systems

- Data output to information service providers

- The receipt of data from external systems

- Maintaining ownership of software for the Minnesota 511 system

- Easy expansion to innovative, research-oriented initiatives.

Minnesota DOT

Castle Rock Consultants

Presented at the ITS America Annual Conference and Exposition, May 19-22, 2003 Minneapolis, Minnesota

The end of the design phase is considered to be the end of the project for many design engineers; however, for an ITS project to be successful the end of the design phase should almost be considered the beginning. The advanced technical components of an ITS project require that the design engineer be heavily involved throughout the entire construction and integration process. A wide range of construction management tasks are necessary to ensure the project's schedule, budget and quality.

Gresham, Smith & Partners

Presented at the ITS America Annual Conference and Exposition, May 19-22, 2003 Minneapolis, Minnesota