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-Summary:
This webinar will feature examples of how agencies are using Automated Traffic Signal Performance Measures (ATSPM) to improve the maintenance and asset management of their traffic signal systems. ATSPM visualizations allow technicians and traffic engineers to view an entire day’s worth of detection information, phase terminations, and other traffic signal data at one time. Using these visualizations, agency staff can quickly spot detector failures, stuck pedestrian actuations, and other maintenance issues that negatively affect traffic signal performance.
ATSPM is fueling a transformation in how transportation agencies approach the management, operations and maintenance of signalized intersections. The Federal Highway Administration’s inclusion of ATSPMs in the Every Day Counts 4 Initiative, is catalyzing the transformation of traffic signal operations from traditional reactive, temporal and complaint based approaches to active, objectives and performance based approaches. The outcome of shifting traffic signal operations from reactive to proactive is high quality traffic signal operations that are consistent with the needs of communities, and reflected in operations and maintenance objectives. ATSPMs empower agencies to provide signal operations that are safer, promote greater mobility, reduce congestion and demonstrate fiscal responsibility.
This webinar is part of a series that will familiarize participants with the technical aspects of ATSPMs, how they fit into an objectives and performance based management framework, and implementation options that fit a range of agency capability, and infrastructure situation. The FHWA does not endorse or promote specific products that are presented within the context of these webinars.
Learning Objectives:
- Provide an overview of the FHWA Every Day Counts Automated Traffic Signal Performance Measures Initiative and available resources to promote implementation of the technology.
- Receive practical examples of how transportation agencies are using ATSPM visualizations to improve traffic signal maintenance and asset management.
Presenters:
Moderator
- Eddie Curtis, FHWA (Eddie.Curtis@dot.gov) has been with FHWA for 11 years. He manages the Office of Operations' Arterial Management program. He has over 20 years of experience in traffic signal management and operations. Prior to joining FHWA, he was an associate engineer with the City of Los Angeles in the Automated Traffic Surveillance and Control (ATSAC) center and worked as a private sector consultant, providing technical support for various transportation agencies. Eddie received a BS in Civil Engineering from California State University, Los Angeles and an MS in Civil Engineering from Georgia Tech.
Presenters
- Alan Davis, Georgia Department of Transportation is the Assistant State Traffic Engineer at the Georgia Department of Transportation. Mr. Davis led updates to GDOT’s Central Traffic Signal Software, local controllers and firmware, as well as updates to the GDOT Traffic Management Center. Alan led the implementation of Signal Performance Measures in the state and provided documentation to support installation and application of the UDOT ATSPM Open Source Software. He holds a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of South Carolina.
- Matt Luker, Utah Department of Transportation has been a Statewide Signal Engineer for the Utah Department of Transportation for almost ten years. He is responsible for the timing of over 600 traffic signals, and also specializes in advanced signal operations such as transit priority, custom controller logic, and phasing of complex intersections. Before coming to UDOT he worked for several years as a consultant. He is a graduate of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
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Christopher Day, Iowa State University is an assistant professor of civil engineering at Iowa State University. He previously worked at Purdue University for nearly seven years as a senior research scientist in the Joint Transportation Research Program. His research background is in transportation operations, with a focus on performance measures for signalized arterials and freeway operations. Automated traffic signal performance measures, a major product of this prior research, has been widely implemented across the US and internationally, and is becoming a standard tool in modern traffic control. Day's current research focuses on further applications of new data sets in operations and analysis, with an interest in connected and automated vehicles.
Target Audience:
This webinar is intended for professionals involved in the management, planning, design, operations or maintenance of signalized intersections. It will also benefit other practitioners, researchers and professionals who are interested in this topic.