2018 TRC Transportation Engineering ConferenceMay 16, 2018

I‐75 Express LanesOr:  It Takes a Village

• So we had a new Road– A new Type of Road

• Variable tolling (ok, not really new)• Reversible (ok, that’s REALLY new to us)

– Being built via design build– Underway as I walked in the door– Lots of balls in the air– Lots more needed to be tossed– Involves LOTS of different people with different organizations 

The Traditional Bookends

Delivery & Operations

SRTA and GDOTHardware and Software

HERO and TMC

Finance & Legal

HERO’s?Maintenance?

Human Resources & Transit

A new kind of HERO?and

New HERO’s?

GRTA BusesandBuses

Data Collection & Maintenance

Special needs

Communications & Incident Mgt.

Remarkably complicatedRemarkably intertwined

Executive Committee

Well, not the Governor . . . 

John L. Hibbard, PEOperations Division Director

Georgia Department of Transportationjhibbard@dot.ga.gov

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