Overview
The Maryland Department of Transportation/State Highway Administration—National Operations Center of Excellence TSMO Collaboration
The National Operations Center of Excellence (NOCoE) is expanding its technical program offerings to include onsite Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO) agency engagements. NOCoE will focus on visiting agencies who’ve developed a TSMO program plan and have demonstrated the positive benefits of implementing a TSMO focus. The resourcing of benefits and practices will not be limited to just technical projects but will include demonstrated institutional and business related improvements and will capture developmental processes that allow DOTs to implement TSMO.
A typical agency engagement will include interviews with key agency officials and members of partner agencies, gathering agency resources and materials to share TSMO content with the wider community, as well as pictures, videos, and other documentation of the agency as a whole. The collected materials and resources of the visit will be developed into a webpage to allow NOCoE to disseminate these key resources to the broader TSMO community, start conversations around particular components of TSMO implementation, and feed future learning opportunities through webinars or virtual peer exchanges. Additionally, it will serve to highlight the agency’s achievements, best practices, and processes to its own stakeholders as well as the broader transportation community.
NOCoE’s first agency engagement was with Maryland DOT’s State Highway Administration. MD DOT and NOCoE officials met on May 10, 2017 to share their perspective on a range of TSMO matters. The meeting agenda, attendees, outcomes, and next steps are available in our MD DOT Site Visit Overview.
In addition to the documents and resources collected below, next steps include:
- The two organizations will identify one or webinars and/or virtual peer exchanges that NOCoE will organize to address topics of interest to MD DOT/SHA and other agencies
- NOCoE offers to prepare a case study of the state’s evolution and approach to TSMO, if this would be of interest to MD DOT/SHA. The case study could be used in presentations by both organizations at the state and national level
- NOCoE will utilize the knowledge and resources provided by Maryland to inform and elevate conversations with other agencies and to connect agencies with Maryland around specific topics
A complete list of resources are below:
aDMINISTRATIVE AND Reporting
- CHART Board Membership Roles
- CHART Business Area Architecture
- 2016 Maryland State Highway Mobility Report
- 2016 SHA Annual Report
- 2015 Performance Evaluation and Benefit Analysis for CHART
TSMO planning MATERIALS
- Maryland Transportation Systems Management & Operations (TSM&O) Strategic Implementation Plan
- TSMO Strategic Implementation Plan - Presentation for TSMO Executive Committee Briefing- July 2016
- TSMO Strategic Implementation Plan Development Workshop - July 2015
- TSMO CMM Implementation Plan Workshop - August 2014
- Improving TSMO: Maryland State Highway Administration (MDSHA) Implement Plan Webinar Memorandum (based on CMM Workshop from March 2014)
- Improving TSMO: A Capability Improvement Workshop - April 2013
Operations guidelines and procedures
- CHART Traffic Management Center Operations - Standard Operating Procedures
- CHART Concept of Operations
- Maryland State Highway Administration Traffic Signal Timing Guidelines and Training Manual
Traffic incident management
- Maryland Police Chief Association's Resolution on Improving the Management of Traffic Incidents
- Marland Sheriff's Association's Resolution on Improving the Management of Traffic Incidents
- Final Signed Memorandum of Regional Coordination
- Traffic Incident Management Memorandum's of Understanding (MOUs):
If you have any resources or plans to share or are interesting in finding out more about our site agency visits, please be sure to email notify us at nocoe@transportationops.org.