Status Report on Other Current Projects

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Status Report on Other Current Projects

• Transportation Management Center
• Pooled Fund Study
• 2006 Annual Meeting
• July 25th 26th, 2006
• Park City, Utah

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TMC Business Planning and Plans Handbook

• Objectives
• Provide guidance, processes, techniques, and
  recommended practice to assist in preparation and
  development of TMC business plans and models
• Outline successful business planning models
• Ensure long-term sustainability of TMCs
• Intended Audience
• Individuals responsible for or involved in
  planning, developing, implementing, managing,
  operating, maintaining, or supporting a TMC

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TMC Business Planning and Plans Handbook

• Project Champion Monica Kress, Caltrans
• FHWA Work Order Manager Raj Ghaman
• Contractor Lead Pierre Pretorius, Kimley-
  Horn and Associates
• Project Cost 200,000
• Period of Performance 15 Months

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TMC Business Planning and Plans Handbook

• Status
• Final Handbook December 2005
• Outreach Materials (Primer, Fact
  Sheet Brochure Presentation Summer 2006
• 508 Version of Deliverables Summer 2006

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Developing and Using Concept of Operations in
Transportation Management Systems

• Objectives
• Develop a detailed document providing technical
  guidance and recommended practices for concepts
  of operations and requirements in transportation
  management systems
• Specifically address
• How to develop
• What to include
• How to use throughout system lifecycle
• Intended Audience
• Individuals responsible for or involved in
  managing, developing, implementing, operating, or
  maintaining a TMC and a transportation management
  system

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Developing and Using Concept of Operations in
Transportation Management Systems

• Project Champion Manny Agah, Arizona DOT
• FHWA Work Order Manager Emiliano Lopez
• Contractor Lead Brian Smith, Univ. of Virginia
• Project Cost 210,000
• Period of Performance 15 Months

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Developing and Using Concept of Operations in
Transportation Management Systems

• Status
• Final Handbook December 2005
• Outreach Materials (Primer, Fact
  Sheet Brochure Presentation March 2006
• 508 Version of Deliverables Fall 2006

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TMC Performance Monitoring, Evaluation and
Reporting Handbook

• Objectives
• Provide guidance on how to develop, implement,
  improve, and sustain a continuous performance
  monitoring, data management, evaluation and
  reporting program or initiative for TMCs and
  transportation management systems
• Intended Audience
• Individuals involved with planning, development,
  management, operation, monitoring, evaluation,
  and reporting on the performance of TMCs and
  transportation management systems
• TMC managers, first level supervisors, and
  technical staff

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TMC Performance Monitoring, Evaluation and
Reporting Handbook

• Project Champion Mark Newland, Indiana DOT
• FHWA Work Order Manager Raj Ghaman
• Contractor Lead Brian Park, Univ. of Virginia
• Project Cost 225,000
• Period of Performance 16 Months

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TMC Performance Monitoring, Evaluation and
Reporting Handbook

• Status
• Final Draft Handbook November 2005
• Outreach Materials (Primer, Fact
  Sheet Brochure Presentation December 2005
• 508 Version of Final Deliverables Summer 2006

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Procuring, Managing, and Evaluating the
Performance of Contracted TMC Services

• Objectives
• Provide technical guidance and recommended
  practice to managers, planners, and operators of
  TMCs in making decisions related to outsourcing
  portions, or in entirety, of their operation to a
  private contractor(s)
• Intended Audience
• Individuals and agencies involved in the
  development of business plans for TMCs and
  transportation management systems and in the
  development of support contracts for TMC and
  transportation management system components or
  operations

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Procuring, Managing, and Evaluating the
Performance of Contracted TMC Services

• Project Champion Manny Agah, Arizona DOT
• FHWA Work Order Manager Raj Ghaman
• Contractor Lead TBD
• Project Cost 200,000
• Period of Performance 16 Months

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Procuring, Managing, and Evaluating the
Performance of Contracted TMC Services

• Milestones Deliverables
• Anticipated Project Kick-off August 2006
• Annotated Outline December 2006
• Draft Document August 2007
• Final Document November 2007
• Primer December 2007
• Outreach Material (Fact Sheet, Brochure, and
  Presentation) December 2007

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Integration of TMCs and Law Enforcement Needs
Assessment

• Objectives
• Assess current practices and identify
  institutional, operational and technical issues
  and challenges
• Identify a series of next steps for a follow-on
  study
• Intended Audience
• TMC and law enforcement personnel, first level
  supervisors, and technical staff (planners,
  operators, dispatchers)

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Integration of TMCs and Law Enforcement Needs
Assessment

• Project Champion John Domina, Nevada DOT
• FHWA Work Order Manager Tom Granda
• Contractor Lead TBD
• Project Cost 50,000
• Period of Performance 8 Months

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Integration of TMCs and Law Enforcement Needs
Assessment

• Milestones Deliverables
• Anticipated Project Kick-off September 2006
• Work Plan October 2006
• Synthesis Report December 2006
• Findings Document May 2007

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TMC Pilot Workshop Development and Delivery

• Objectives
• Develop a pilot workshop
• Promote TMC PFS effort and increase awareness of
  TMC PFS products and tools to a broader audience
  base
• Intended Audience
• Agencies responsible for planning, design,
  managing, operating, and maintaining
  transportation management systems

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TMC Pilot Workshop Development and Delivery

• Project Champions John Corbin, WisDOT
• FHWA Work Order Manager Raj Ghaman
• Contractor Lead TBD
• Project Cost 65,000
• Period of Performance 14 Months

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TMC Pilot Workshop Development and Delivery

• Milestones Deliverables
• Anticipated Project Kick-off Fall 2006
• Needs Assessment White Paper Winter 2006
• Workshop Concept and Plans Winter 2006
• Tabletop Exercises
• Workshop Materials Spring 2007
• TMC Pilot Workshop Summer/Fall 2007
• Lessons Learned and Recommended
• Areas of Improvement Fall 2007
• Findings Report Fall 2007

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TMC Clearinghouse Support Services Phase 2

• Objectives
• Provide continued and improved support services
  for TMC Clearinghouse
• Evaluate feedback and recommend enhancement to
  improve clearinghouse features and functions
• Provide support to facilitate outreach and
  awareness to a broader audience base
• Intended Audience
• TMC managers and operators, representatives of
  state DOTs, local agencies, practitioners, and
  researchers

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TMC Clearinghouse Support Services Phase 2

• Project Champion Co-Chairs
• FHWA Work Order Manager Raj Ghaman
• Contractor Lead TBD
• Project Cost 125,000
• Period of Performance 12 Months

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TMC Clearinghouse Support Services Phase 2

• Milestones Deliverables
• Anticipated Project Kick-off Fall 2006
• Enhanced TMC Clearinghouse Fall 2007
• Primers, and Marketing materials Fall 2007
• Report on the evaluation of feedback and
  recommended enhancements Fall 2007
• Clearinghouse Maintenance Plan Fall 2007

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Methodologies to Measure and Quantify TMC
Benefits Phase 1

• Objectives
• Synthesize methodologies for measuring,
  quantifying, and evaluating the costs and
  benefits of TMCs
• Assess the feasibility of developing a software
  tool that could be used to quantify the benefits
  of TMCs
• Intended Audience
• Representative state DOTs, MPOs, transit
  agencies, enforcement agencies and others
• TMC managers, first level supervisors, and
  technical staff (planners and operators) involved
  in the collection, dissemination and warehousing
  of data, and monitoring, evaluation and reporting
  of TMC performance and benefits

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Methodologies to Measure and Quantify TMC
Benefits Phase 1

• Project Champion Jim McGee, Nebraska DOR
• FHWA Work Order Manager Raj Ghaman
• Contractor Lead TBD
• Project Cost 75,000
• Period of Performance 8 Months

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Methodologies to Measure and Quantify TMC
Benefits Phase 1

• Milestones Deliverables
• Anticipated Project Kick-off September 2006
• Synthesis Report May 2007
• Phase 2 Work Plan May 2007

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Driver Use of Real-Time En-Route Travel Time
Information

• Objectives
• Assess impacts of en-route real-time travel
  time/delay/speed information on drivers
• Define the most effective way to provide en-route
  real-time travel time information
• Develop preliminary guidance to practitioners for
  delivering en-route travel time information
• Intended Audience
• Personnel in state, regional, and local
  transportation agencies that are responsible for
  or involved in the day-to-day operation of and/or
  provision of real-time or near real-time travel
  time information

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Driver Use of Real-Time En-Route Travel Time
Information

• Project Champion Gene Donaldson, Delaware DOT
• FHWA Work Order Manager Tom Granda
• Contractor Lead TBD
• Project Cost 300,000
• Period of Performance 24 Months

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Driver Use of Real-Time En-Route Travel Time
Information

• Milestones Deliverables
• Anticipated Project Kick-off Fall 2006
• Research Work Plan Spring 2007
• Research Report Summer 2008
• White Paper Summer 2008
• Fact Sheet and Presentation Summer 2008

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Developing Travel Time Information

• Objectives
• Synthesize the state of the practice, success
  stories, and lessons learned
• Provide guidance and recommended practices on the
  methods, techniques, and procedures to collect,
  calculate, and predict travel time information
• Intended Audience
• Representative state DOTs, MPOs, transit
  agencies, enforcement agencies and private
  service providers
• Developers and operators of public and private
  facilities that are involved in congestion
  mitigation strategies, traveler information
  systems and planning activities

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Developing Travel Time Information

• Project Champion Jeff Galas, Illinois DOT
• FHWA Work Order Manager Raj Ghaman
• Contractor Lead TBD
• Project Cost 150,000
• Period of Performance 14 Months

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Developing Travel Time Information

• Milestones Deliverables
• Anticipated Project Kick-off October 2006
• Annotated Outline January 2007
• Technical Document November 2007
• Outreach Materials (Fact Sheet Brochure
  Presentation) December 2007

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Requirements and Position Descriptions for TMC
Support Staff

• Objectives
• Build off of information already compiled for
  operators and assist in developing KSA
  requirements, job classifications and
  descriptions for other TMC staff
• Expand and enhance the capability of the
  interactive software already developed
• Intended Audience
• State and local agency TMC managers, supervisors,
  and human resource personnel
• Private sector companies who provide contract
  services to TMCs

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Requirements and Position Descriptions for TMC
Support Staff

• Project Champion Mark Demidovich, Georgia DOT
• FHWA Work Order Manager Tom Granda
• Contractor Lead TBD
• Project Cost 175,000
• Period of Performance 18 Months

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Requirements and Position Descriptions for TMC
Support Staff

• Milestones Deliverables
• Final Statement of Work July 2006
• Anticipated Project Kick-off October 2006
• Enhanced Software Tool February 2008
• Project Report February 2008
• Outreach Materials (Fact Sheet, Brochure
  Presentation) March 2008

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Techniques for Managing Service Patrol Operations

• Objectives
• Review and synthesize the state of the practice,
  success stories, and lessons learned around the
  country
• Develop a synthesis report that provides guidance
  and recommended practices on the concepts,
  methods, innovative techniques, models and
  procedures for managing and operating service
  patrols
• Intended Audience
• Agencies and personnel that are responsible for
  planning, operation, management or utilization of
  service patrols
• Transportation and public safety agencies
  involved with traffic incident management

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Techniques for Managing Service Patrol Operations

• Project Champion Mia Silver, Michigan DOT
• FHWA Work Order Manager Raj Ghaman
• Contractor Lead TBD
• Project Cost 100,000
• Period of Performance 12 Months

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Techniques for Managing Service Patrol Operations

• Milestones Deliverables
• Draft Statement of Work June 2006
• Final Statement of Work August 2006
• Anticipated Project Kick-off November 2006
• Synthesis Report October 2007
• Fact Sheet and Presentation October 2007

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Best Practices for Road Condition Reporting
Systems

• Objectives
• Review and synthesize current best practices and
  state of the practices in planning, design, and
  operation of road condition reporting systems as
  well as in integrating such systems with other
  road weather information/management systems
• Intended Audience
• Agencies and personnel that are responsible for
  planning, operation, management or utilization of
  road condition reporting systems
• Representative DOTs (state and local), MPOs,
  transit agencies, private transit agencies,
  commercial users of road condition reporting
  system data and others

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Best Practices for Road Condition Reporting
Systems

• Project Champion Manny Agah, Arizona DOT
• FHWA Work Order Manager Raj Ghaman
• Contractor Lead TBD
• Project Cost 100,000
• Period of Performance 12 Months

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Best Practices for Road Condition Reporting
Systems

• Milestones Deliverables
• Draft Statement of Work June 2006
• Final Statement of Work August 2006
• Anticipated Project Kick-off November 2006
• Synthesis Report October 2007
• Fact Sheet and Presentation October 2007