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HNTB ITS/Traffic Operations

Minnesota Guidestar

June 20, 2012

HNTB’s ITS/Traffic Operations Practice

Diverse capabilities Nationwide resources Cutting-edge experience

Diverse ITS/Traffic Operations Capabilities

• ITS and communication design
• Connected vehicles
• System integration and

technology support

• Signal systems
• Managed/HOT lanes
• Operations, including traffic

incident management

• Training/professional

capacity building

Diverse ITS/Traffic Operations Capabilities

• Specialty areas:

− Incident management − Communications and networking − Parking management − Application development

Nationwide ITS/Traffic Operations Resources

• More than 125 ITS

professionals nationwide

• 40 in Great Lakes Region
• Ability to tap specialized

disciplines or capabilities

• Ability to leverage firmwide

resources outside of ITS

ITS/Operations Training

• Fiber Optics
• Communications
• ITS Design
• ITS Construction Inspection
• Traffic Incident

Management

• Emergency Transportation

Operations

• Planned Special Events
• Crisis Communications

Cutting-Edge Experience: Connected Vehicles

• MDOT
• FDOT
• GDOT
• City of Detroit
• New Jersey Turnpike Authority
• Miami-Dade Expressway Authority

USDOT Safety Pilot Model Deployment

Deployment Facts

• 2,800 vehicles
• Cars, trucks, transit
• Fully integrated vehicles
• Intersections, freeways
• V2I, V2V

Safety Applications

• Collision avoidance
• Curve over-speed warning
• Lane change assist
• SPaT signal controllers
• Transit safety devices –

pedestrian detection systems

• In-vehicle work zone

notification

• In-vehicle merge advisories

based on lane closures

• Railroad grade crossing

warning

Cutting-Edge Experience: Parking Management

• Metra

parking management

• I-94 truck

parking management system

Truck Parking Information & Management System

• Issue: Overcrowded rest areas, safety concerns
• Objective: Improve corridor parking utilization

Truck Parking Information & Management System

System components

• Vehicle sensors
• CCTV cameras
• Parking status signs
• DMS
• Traveler website
• In-vehicle devices
• Smart phone app

Cutting-Edge Experience: ITS Communications

• St. Louis regional design
• City of Columbus regional design
• Metro Detroit regional design
• Honolulu design and integration

Honolulu Communications Design

• All wireless
• Terrain modeling
• Path testing

Honolulu System Integration

• Lab testing
• Field integration
• Operational support
• Field testing

Cutting-Edge Experience: Asset Management

• St. Louis regional ITS asset management
• MDOT statewide ITS asset management

MDOT Statewide ITS Asset Management

• SQL server database
• Fiber, conduit, handholes, devices
• Work orders and maintenance
• Linked to photos, as-builts, cabinet data

MDOT Statewide Asset Management

Cutting-Edge Experience: Managed/HOT Lanes

• SR 91 Express Lanes –

Orange County, CA

− User pricing to optimize the number of vehicles that can safely travel the toll lanes at free- flow speeds − Finance the project to accelerate construction

Cutting-Edge Experience: Managed/HOT Lanes

• I-15 Express Lanes Design & Operations, Salt Lake City, UT

Main Lanes Managed Lanes Direct Access Ramps Access Road BRT Station Park- and-Ride

Cutting-Edge Experience: Zoo ICM “Crossing” Corridors

Cutting-Edge Experience: Zoo ICM Con Ops

Real-time Traveler Information Traffic Signal Operations Traffic Incident Management Traffic Operations Authority

Cutting-Edge Experience: Zoo ICM

• Institutional

− Establish operations “authorities” (decision making, technical) − Transfer of signal “ownership” − Coordination/connection with Work Zone TMP

• Traffic Signal Operations and Traveler Information

− Responsive and/or adaptive signal control − Arterial detection and monitoring − Integration of Zoo ICM with Statewide Traffic Operations Center (arterial-freeway operation co-location) − Expanded information dissemination (DMS, 511, etc.)

• Traffic Incident Management

− Arterial incident response tools − Expansion of WisDOT Freeway Service Team (incl. arterials)

Cutting-Edge Experience: HNTB TIM Quals

• Implementing national

SHRP2 L12/L32A responder training

• Established FHWA

National TIM training standardization

• Lead facilitator of FHWA

“Advanced TIM for Mid- Level Managers” Workshops (Minneapolis, September 2011)

• Author of FHWA Freeway

Service Patrol Handbook

Cutting-Edge Experience: HNTB TIM Quals

• WisDOT Traffic Incident

Management Enhancement (TIME) Program − Exclusive management/support contractor since 1995 − ITS America “Best-Of” Award Winner − Expanded from Milwaukee to Statewide − Needs-based, relationships focused

• Member of National TIM

Coalition leadership, support in NUG direction and development

• TIM experience in 28 states,

49 cities

Why HNTB?

Diverse capabilities Nationwide resources Cutting-edge experience