Safety

The magnitude of societal and economic impacts associated with recent natural and manmade
disasters has generated heightened awareness of the importance of infrastructure
resiliency. Transportation systems are key to response and recovery at the regional level.
These systems must hold up under stress maintaining baseline service levels and must be
robust enough in physical design and operational concept to provide a degree of selfrestoration
to prevent a destructive event from becoming the catalyst for a degenerative
epoch. Implications of non-resilient transportation systems on quality of life and economic
efficacy of a locality or region are tremendous. Engineering disciplines have made great
advances in design and assessment, increasing resiliency for the built environment. However,
those involved in infrastructure investment decisions face a significant challenge when
seeking guidance for measuring resiliency for complex and adaptive systems such as
transportation. Decision makers need metrics, integrating frameworks, and decision support
tools to test investment strategies against a range of potential event sequences. The objective of this paper is to present a conceptual framework and methodology to aid in the
quantification of the concept of transportation resiliency.

Utah State University

University of Massachusetts Amherst

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

General Dynamics is under contract with the New York State Thruway Authority
(NYSTA) to provide an integrated incident/event coordination system in the Buffalo/Niagara
Falls/Southern Ontario region. This system will enhance both traffic operations and emergency
management. The system, which is scheduled to be operational in the first quarter of 2004,
provides an automated mechanism for exchanging information in real time between the Niagara
International Transportation Technology Coalition (NITTEC) Traffic Operations Center (TOC)
Automated Traffic Management System (ATMS) located in Buffalo, New York and the Erie
County Central Police Services (CPS) computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system, which services
police agencies in multiple cities, towns, and villages within Erie County, New York. The
mechanism makes use of elements of the Integrated Incident Management System (IIMS) that General Dynamics developed for New York City under contract to the New York State
Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) to provide an IEEE Standard 1512 (IEEE 1512)
conforming center-to-center (C2C) interface between the ATMS and CAD.  Reference 1
provides a description of IIMS.

General Dynamics

Presented at the ITS America Annual Conference and Exposition, April 26 - 28, 2004 San Antonio, Texas

The benefits of a closer integration of emergency services and traffic management
activities have been an issue of discussion for many years.  Throughout the country,
significant improvements have been made in developing closer ties and operational
coordination between traffic management and Emergency Management Services (EMS)
personnel.  However, the integration of traffic management and emergency management
systems has progressed much slower.  There are many reasons for the slow progress in
integration of Advanced Transportation Management Systems (ATMS) and EMS
Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) systems.  While there are a few systems with a limited
level of integration (i.e that pass incident type and location information from the CAD to
the ATMS), this has not provided the level of integration that is typically desired.  In
addition, it is very easy to find agencies that have long overdue integration plans.

National Engineering Technology Corp.  (NET)

Illinois State Toll Highway Authority

National Engineering Technology Corp.

Geac Public Safety

Illinois Dept. of Transportation

National Engineering Technology Corp.

Presented at the ITS America Annual Conference and Exposition, April 26 - 28, 2004 San Antonio, Texas

In 2003, Battelle Memorial Institute (Battelle) conducted a comprehensive evaluation of
the City of Scottsdale’s arterial street Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS).  
The paper summarizes the conclusions of the various evaluation analyses but focuses on
how the system has facilitated partnering and leveraging of resources among law
enforcement and traffic operations staff.  Findings in two areas are featured:  special
events and incidents (traffic crashes). The ATMS consists of a centralized traffic signal
system, closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras, and dynamic message signs (DMS),
monitored and operated from a Traffic Management Center (TMC).

Battelle Memorial Institute

Presented at the ITS America Annual Conference and Exposition, April 26 - 28, 2004 San Antonio, Texas

Regional emergency evacuation of population away from risk areas
involves the movement of people to safe places or shelters in response to a natural or a
man-made disaster.  It is crucial to understand the behavior and decision-making process
of the evacuees. Planning evacuation requires develop sound evacuation strategies that
can best serves the purpose of reducing risk and protecting lives. Evaluation of the
effectiveness of evacuation strategies is one of key tasks to the success of evacuation
planning. Traffic simulation model is the nature choice to fulfill the evaluation task.  
Traffic simulation is a disaggregate means for developing evacuation plans, and enables
the planners to evaluate multiple scenarios. This study focuses on developing a prototype
of GIS-based evacuation simulation system that integrates evacuee behavioral patterns,
transportation network, and regional land-use information to develop a flexible
methodology for evacuation planning using GIS and traffic simulation system. The
integrated system has shown much more efficient for evaluation of regional emergency
evacuation plans than isolated simulation model because GIS not only can integrate
spatial related data but also provide visualized results. The evaluation includes the
evacuation routes, network capacity and shelter capacity, traffic control and management
strategies, and ITS technologies.

Daniel Consultants, Inc.

Jilin University

Presented at the ITS America Annual Conference and Exposition, April 26 - 28, 2004 San Antonio, Texas