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Transportation Management Center Business Planning and Plans Handbook

  • 2005-2009
  • Case Studies
  • Case Studies & Lessons Learned
  • Case Study
  • Cost / Benefit Analysis
  • Director / Program Manager
  • Engineer
  • FHWA
  • Interagency Agreements / Cooperation / MOUs
  • Local government/MPO/RTPA cooperation
  • Manager / First Line Supervisor
  • Media / PIO
  • Operator
  • Outsourcing/PPP
  • Planning
  • Planning Analysis Tools
  • Planning for Operations
  • Principal Engineer
  • Programming/Budget/Funding
  • Public Safety Officer
  • Public-Private Partnerships (PPP)
  • Researcher/Academic
  • Senior Engineer
  • Senior Manager
  • Transportation Management Centers
  • Transportation Management Centers (TMC / TOC)
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This guidebook discusses the rationale for TMC business planning, the components and considerations of a TMC business plan, and five case studies of existing TMCs. TMC business plans help execute a long-range vision and goals, link ITS programs to regional objectives and funding sources, and outl

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Case Studies & Lessons Learned

Case Studies in Using Reliability Performance Measures in Transportation Planning

  • 2014
  • Active Management and TSMO
  • Active Traffic Management (ATM)
  • Active Traffic Management/Travel Demand Management/Pricing
  • Arterial Traffic Control Device Operations
  • Associate Engineer
  • Case Studies
  • Case Studies & Lessons Learned
  • Case Study
  • Communicating Reliability Information
  • Corridor and Arterial Traffic Management
  • Cost / Benefit Analysis
  • Economic and Investment Analysis Tools
  • Emergency Transportation Operations
  • Emergency Transportation Operations
  • Emergency Transportation Operations for Disasters
  • Emergency Transportation Operations for Disasters
  • Engineer
  • Freeway Management
  • Freeway Operations
  • Freight Management
  • Freight Management Operations
  • Integrated Corridor Management
  • Integrated Corridor Management
  • Interagency Agreements / Cooperation / MOUs
  • Local government/MPO/RTPA cooperation
  • Manager / First Line Supervisor
  • Organizational Models
  • Performance Management
  • Performance Management
  • Planning
  • Planning Analysis Tools
  • Planning Analysis Tools
  • Planning Analysis Tools
  • Pricing / Toll Roads
  • Principal Engineer
  • Programming/Budget/Funding
  • Real Time Traveler Information
  • SHRP2 Program
  • Senior Engineer
  • Senior Manager
  • System Performance Definition, Monitoring and Reporting
  • Traffic Incident Management
  • Traffic Incident Management
  • Traffic Incident Management
  • Traffic Incident Management
  • Transportation Planner
  • Travel Demand Management
  • Traveler Information
  • Traveler Information
  • Traveler Information
  • Work Zone Management
  • Work Zone Management
  • Work Zone Traffic Management
  • Work Zone Traffic Management
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This technical memorandum provides information from six sample case studies performed under the project for the Knoxville Regional Transportation Planning Organization, Florida Department of Transportation, Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority, Southeast Michigan Council of Goverments,

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Applying Analysis Tools in Planning for Operations

  • 2005-2009
  • Associate Engineer
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  • Case Studies & Lessons Learned
  • Case Study
  • Engineer
  • FHWA
  • Freeway Operations
  • Manager / First Line Supervisor
  • Organizational Models
  • Performance Management
  • Performance Management
  • Principal Engineer
  • Program Status/Authorities
  • Researcher/Academic
  • Senior Engineer
  • Senior Manager
  • Strategic Planning
  • Technical Understanding
  • Transit Operations
  • Transit Professional
  • Transportation Planner
    • |PDF

More and more, transportation system operators are seeing the benefits of strengthening links between planning and operations. A critical element in improving transportation decision-making and the effectiveness of transportation systems related to operations and planning is through the use of an

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Case Studies

Travel Time Messaging on Dynamic Message Signs - Houston, TX

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The Houston TranStar partnership was created in 1993 to coordinate and enhance surface transportation operations in Harris County, Texas. It is comprised of the four principal transportation and emergency management agencies in Harris County:

Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT)
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Travel Time Messaging on Dynamic Message Signs - Nashville, TN

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The Tennessee Department of Transportation's (TDOT) SmartWay is the official name for the state of Tennessee's intelligent transportation system (ITS). The SmartWay is focused on the application of advanced information technologies to improve the safety and operation of highways and other transporta
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Travel Time Messaging on Dynamic Message Signs - Portland, OR

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The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) Region 1 office is responsible for the operation and maintenance of Dynamic Message Signs (DMS) and the posting of travel time information to those signs on Portland area freeways. Supervision of such activities is conducted from its Regional Traffic Ma
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State-of-the Practice

Every Day Counts - Smarter Work Zones: Project Coordination

  • 2015
  • Active Traffic Management/Travel Demand Management/Pricing
  • Associate Engineer
  • CEO / GM / Commissioner
  • Case Studies
  • Director / Program Manager
  • Engineer
  • FHWA
  • Maintenance Staff
  • Manager / First Line Supervisor
  • Media / PIO
  • Operator
  • Planning
  • Planning Analysis Tools
  • Planning for Operations
  • Principal Engineer
  • Project Development
  • Project Development Overview
  • Project Systems Engineering
  • Public
  • Public Safety Officer
  • Researcher/Academic
  • Senior Engineer
  • Senior Manager
  • Standards
  • Standards and Interoperability
  • State-of-the Practice
  • System Architecture
  • System Architecture / Engineering
  • System Performance Definition, Monitoring and Reporting
  • Systems engineering
  • Technician
  • Technology Tracker
  • Transit Professional
  • Transportation Planner
  • Travel Demand Management
  • Work Zone Management
  • Work Zone Management
  • Work Zone Traffic Management
  • Work Zone Traffic Management

This webpage holds various examples of how cities and regions have coordinated road projects and their associated benefits. Also included is a webinar recording on Work Zone Project Coordination, which was held in September of 2012.

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Case Studies & Lessons Learned

Showcasing Visualization Tools in Congestion Management

  • 2011
  • Access Management
  • Active Management and TSMO
  • Active Traffic Management (ATM)
  • Active Traffic Management/Travel Demand Management/Pricing
  • Advanced Traffic Signal Control
  • Asset Management
  • Associate Engineer
  • Bicycles and Pedestrians
  • Business Processes/Policies and Procedures
  • CEO / GM / Commissioner
  • Case Studies
  • Case Studies & Lessons Learned
  • Case Study
  • Communicating Reliability Information
  • Corridor and Arterial Traffic Management
  • Customer Request Management
  • Director / Program Manager
  • Emergency Transportation Operations
  • Emergency Transportation Operations for Disasters
  • Emergency Transportation Operations for Disasters
  • Employee Health and Safety
  • Engineer
  • FHWA
  • Freeway Management
  • Freeway Operations
  • Freight Management Operations
  • HOV Lanes / HOT Lanes
  • Hazard Identification
  • Integrated Corridor Management
  • Integrated Corridor Management
  • Maintenance Staff
  • Manager / First Line Supervisor
  • Media / PIO
  • Operator
  • Performance Management
  • Performance Management
  • Planned Special Event Management
  • Planned Special Event Management
  • Planned Special Event Management
  • Planned Special Events Traffic Management
  • Planning
  • Planning Analysis Tools
  • Planning Analysis Tools
  • Planning Analysis Tools
  • Planning for Operations
  • Principal Engineer
  • Procurement
  • Project Design
  • Project Development
  • Project Development Overview
  • Project Systems Engineering
  • Public
  • Public Safety Officer
  • Regional Traffic Signal Operations & Program Management
  • Researcher/Academic
  • Road Weather Management
  • Road Weather Management
  • Road Weather Management
  • Road Weather Management
  • Roadway Geometric Design
  • Roadway Geometric Design
  • Roadway Safety Services / Roadway Safety Patrol
  • SHRP2 Tools
  • Senior Engineer
  • Senior Manager
  • State DOTs
  • Statewide and Regional Integration
  • Strategic Planning
  • TSMO Asset Management
  • Technician
  • Traffic Impact Assessment
  • Traffic Incident Management
  • Traffic Incident Management
  • Traffic Incident Management
  • Traffic Incident Management
  • Traffic Incident Management
  • Traffic Signal Timing
  • Traffic Signal Timing Software
  • Transit Operations
  • Transit Professional
  • Transit Signal Priority
  • Transit Signal Priority
  • Transportation Planner
  • Travel Demand Forecasting
  • Travel Demand Management
  • Traveler Information
  • Traveler Information
  • Work Zone Management
  • Work Zone Management
  • Work Zone Traffic Management
  • Work Zone Traffic Management

This publication is a summary report describing visualization practices used as part of the congestion management process (CMP), and is a supplement to the CMP Guidebook. These visualizations include maps, charts, graphs, photographs, videos, and computer illustrations and simulations. The report

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Case Studies & Lessons Learned

Twin Cities Metro Area Ramp Meter Study

  • 2000-2004
  • Access Management
  • Active Traffic Management/Travel Demand Management/Pricing
  • Advanced Traffic Signal Control
  • Arterial Traffic Control Device Operations
  • Asset Management
  • Business Processes/Policies and Procedures
  • CEO / GM / Commissioner
  • Case Studies
  • Case Studies & Lessons Learned
  • Case Study
  • Corridor and Arterial Traffic Management
  • Cost / Benefit Analysis
  • Customer Request Management
  • Decision Criteria for ITS Device Type and Location
  • Detection Systems
  • Director / Program Manager
  • Engineer
  • Freeway Management
  • Freeway Operations
  • ITS standards and specifications
  • Integrated Corridor Management
  • Integrated Corridor Management
  • Integrated ITS Deployment
  • Manager / First Line Supervisor
  • Performance Management
  • Planning Analysis Tools
  • Planning Analysis Tools
  • Planning Analysis Tools
  • Planning Analysis Tools
  • Principal Engineer
  • Project Systems Engineering
  • Ramp Management and Control
  • Ramp Metering
  • Researcher/Academic
  • Senior Engineer
  • Standards
  • State DOTs
  • System Performance Definition, Monitoring and Reporting
  • Systems engineering
  • TSMO Asset Management
  • Testing, Verification & Validation (V&V)
  • Traffic Impact Assessment
  • Traffic Signal Timing
  • Transportation Planner
  • Travel Demand Forecasting
  • Travel Demand Management
    • |PDF

The purpose of this study was to determine the effects that ramp metering had within the Twin Cities metro area. 430 ramp meters were to be shut down for six weeks, so data was collected for five weeks before they were turned off. Objectives of this study included examining how ramp metering affe

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