[PPT] - Regional Operations Forum Multimodal Transportation Management PowerPoint Presentation

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Regional Operations Forum Multimodal Transportation Management

Accelerating solutions for highway safety, renewal, reliability, and capacity

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Outline of Forum

Provide a simple definition of multimodal transportation management
Review the objectives these management strategies are designed to achieve
Discuss the events that contribute to non-recurring congestion and travel time

variability.

Provide illustrative examples to show how management strategies to improve travel

time reliability are planned and implemented

Conduct an in-class group exercise.

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A Simple Definition

Multimodal transportation management includes strategies associated with the day- to-day operations and logistics of two or more modes of transportation in a defined geographic area to move people and/or goods in an efficient, safe, secure, and environmentally sound manner.

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Transportation Modes

Examples of the modes of transportation include:

Highway
Rail
Water
Air
Non-motorized

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Geographic Coverage

Urban or rural
Metropolitan
Inter-urban, statewide, or multi-state

……strategies often involve collaboration and modal interfaces offering passenger and/or freight services

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Multimodal Management Objectives

Reduce travel time variability
Improve accessibility
Reduce costs
Improve safety
Reduce environmental impacts

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Forum Focus

This Forum will focus on multimodal

transportation management strategies to address the challenges associated with non-recurring traffic congestion and travel time variability

These are strategies intended to help travelers

and shippers “be on time all the time”

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Major Potential Sources of Unreliable Travel Times*

Traffic incidents
Work zones
Demand fluctuations
Special events
Traffic control devices
Weather
Inadequate base capacity

*All sources were discussed earlier in the week along with

the concept of travel time reliability.

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Other Important Dimensions to Multimodal Management

Equity concerns
System and user/shipper cost impacts
Land use development/accessibility
Community livability
Others?

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Illustrative Examples

EXAMPLE 1: VTrans 2025/Virginia Department
f Transportation
EXAMPLE 2: Moving Washington/Washington

State Department of Transportation/Seattle area

EXAMPLE 3: Port Authority of New York and

New Jersey/New York City area

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EXAMPLE 1: VTrans2025/VDOT

VTrans2025 is the Commonwealth of Virginia's

statewide long-range multi-modal transportation plan.

Date of Implementation:2004
Developed by the Secretary of Transportation

through the four state transportation modal agencies – DOAV, VDRPT,VPA, and VDOT

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VTrans2025: Key Strategies

Inter-Agency Coordination
Signal Coordination and Preemption
TMS Multimodal Video Monitoring
511 Traveler Information System
HOT Managed lanes
Multimodal Electronic Payment Systems (EPS)

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VTrans2025: Performance Measures

Performance Objective Performance Measure Maintain the effective and predictable

peration of the transportation system to

meet customers’ expectations by using technology and demand management techniques. Reduction time to clear non-recurring events; on-time performance of system and services; reduction in travel time variability; reduction in unexpected delay Reduce transfer time between modes. Reduction in transfer time Reduce congestion for all modes. Reduction in VMT; level of service improvement; reduction in travel delay Ensure seamless connections between modes by providing networks of facilities that facilitate the journey from origin to destination and all connections between. Number of barriers removed; number of links added; increase in the number of modal connections; number of bus turnouts, park-and-ride spaces, and bicycle/pedestrian accommodations

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VTrans2025: Lesson Learned

Invest more in transportation
Support transit
Remove bias for highway travel
Fund rail
Protect Transportation Trust Fund revenues
Address the transportation/land use conflict
Improve connections between modes
Think, plan and implement multimodally!

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VTrans2025: Next Steps

Refine the multimodal investment process
Use objective criteria as tools for determining

transportation priorities

Secure approval of common goals by the

transportation agency boards

Work with local and regional planning partners to

identify statewide multimodal projects

Address staffing and funding levels for the

Intermodal Office

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EXAMPLE 2: Moving Washington/ WSDOT/Seattle Area

State of Washington/Seattle Metropolitan Region.
Date of Implementation: 2008
The framework for making transparent, cost-

effective decisions that keep people and goods moving and support a healthy economy, environment and communities.

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Moving Washington: Key Strategies

The Moving Washington strategies Elements of the Moving Washington vision Operate efficiently

Implement express lanes
Apply advanced technologies

Manage demand

Provide flexible travel choices
Shift demand
Keep users informed

Add capacity strategically

Complete critical bridges
Reduce bottleneck & complete

corridor gaps

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Moving Washington: Metrics

Improve trip reliability by 10%
Improve travel times by 10% in urban corridors
Reduce collisions by 25%
Offer more choices for commuters in metro areas

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EXAMPLE 3: PANYNJ Strategic Plan: New York City Area

The New York - New Jersey Metropolitan Region.
Date of Implementation: 2005
The study area of The Port Authority of NY & NJ

includes the five boroughs of New York City; the suburban New York counties; and the eight northern New Jersey counties.

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PANYNJ Strategic Plan: Key Strategies

Inter-Jurisdictional Coordination
Transportation Infrastructure Modernization
Implementation of ITS Technologies
Expansion and Integration of Public Transit
Shift of Freight Movement on Off-Peak Hours

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PANYNJ Strategic Plan: Next Steps

Establish protocols and priorities for more

structured approaches to information sharing.

Provide a single point of contact for coordination of

multiple facilities and agencies.

Establish an integrated ITS program.
Develop and implement an enhanced procurement

and deployment process for technology projects.

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Summary and Conclusions

The planning and implementation of multimodal transportation management

strategies have been an integral part of a transportation planning process.

Implementation of such strategies can reduce travel time, costs, crashes, and

pollution, while optimizing use of the available facilities and improving land use.

Written agreements are required to describe the necessary collaborative activities

and the roles and responsibilities of various agencies and stakeholders.

Multimodal management activities require that objectives be clearly articulated and

that quantitative and qualitative metrics be used to assess the objectives

While multimodal management strategies are important to evaluate in terms of

monetary benefits and costs, non-monetary benefits, costs and other impacts should also be considered.

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Multi-modal Management Exercise and Group Discussion

1. Identify a multimodal management strategy that was intended to address non-recurring congestion and improve travel time reliability in your area.

2. Describe the strategy in terms of its geographic service area, its

major stakeholders, and the objective(s) it was designed to achieve.

3. What metric(s) were used to assess the extent to which this

strategy achieved its objective(s).

4. What lessons were learned as a result of the implementation of this

strategy?

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Questions?

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