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