NOCoE Case Studies capture the strategies and practices currently being deployed to advance the TSMO industry and enable TSMO practitioners to save lives, time, and money.
Case studies are developed in partnership with the authoring organization or individual to succinctly transfer knowledge for the effective use by others in the industry.
Many of the case studies come from TSMO Award Submissions. Please be sure to consider submitting your practices for upcoming awards.
Additional case studies focus on academic and industry collaboration models, the 2017 solar eclipse, and other TSMO practices being deployed throughout the country.
Using Operations Data to Support Mainstreaming TSMO
- Data Acquisition, Support and Hosting
- FHWA
- NOCoE
- Performance Management
- Planning Analysis Tools
- Programming/Budget/Funding
- Webinar
- Webinar
- Webinar
This webinar is part of an FHWA Office of Operations project to support mainstreaming Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO) in transportation agencies. The webinar explores how the use of operations data for decision making in an agency can advance and integrate TSMO, leadi
Manatee County’s Expansion of TSMO Capabilities to Enhance Multimodal
- Active Management and TSMO
- Active Traffic Management (ATM)
- Active Traffic Management/Travel Demand Management/Pricing
- Case Studies
- Case Studies & Lessons Learned
- Case Study
- NOCoE
- Performance Management
- Planning Analysis Tools
- System Performance Definition, Monitoring and Reporting
Traffic Incident Management Benefit-Cost (TIM-BC) Tool: Potential Improvements
- 2022
- Economic and Investment Analysis Tools
- NOCoE
- Planning Analysis Tools
- Presentation
- Presentation
- Roadway Safety Services / Roadway Safety Patrol
- Traffic Incident Management
- Traffic Incident Management
- Traffic Incident Management
- Traffic Incident Management
- Traffic Incident Management
- Webinar
- Webinar
- Webinar
As part of the transportation systems management and operations (TSMO) project, the Saxton Transportation Operations Laboratory (Saxton Lab) is working to improve the Traffic Incident Management Benefit-Cost (TIM-BC) tool and would like to get user feedback. This webinar provided a quick ove
Data Governance for TSMO Peer Exchange Report
- Data Acquisition, Support and Hosting
- Local government/MPO/RTPA cooperation
- NOCoE
- Outsourcing/PPP
- Planning Analysis Tools
- Project Development
- Project Development Overview
- Publications
On April 2, April 9, and April 16, 2021, the National Operations Center of Excellence (NOCoE) hosted a virtual peer exchange on Data Governance for Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO). The peer exchange brought together 30 participants from 12 agencies representing different j
The Role and Benefit of Traffic Simulation in TSMO
- 2021
- NOCoE
- Planning Analysis Tools
- Presentation
- Presentation
- Simulation Analysis
- Webinar
- Webinar
- Webinar
Traffic simulation has steadily grown as a prominent practice in evaluating diverse and complex operational strategies. This includes many Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO) applications (e.g., ramp metering, managed lanes, traffic signal prioritization, and integrated corrid
Adventures in Crowdsourcing: Open Source Code to Jumpstart Analytics
- 2021
- Data Acquisition, Support and Hosting
- NOCoE
- Planning Analysis Tools
- Presentation
- Presentation
- Webinar
- Webinar
- Webinar
Is your agency a Waze® Connected Cities Partner or planning to become one? Does your agency manually monitor this free data feed and would prefer to set up alerts when travel times are atypical? Would your agency like to implement analytics that enable traffic engineers to conduct before-after st
Adventures in Crowdsourcing: Modern Data Management
- 2021
- Data Acquisition, Support and Hosting
- NOCoE
- Planning Analysis Tools
- Presentation
- Presentation
- Webinar
- Webinar
- Webinar
“Big Data” for transportation operations and the broader transportation enterprise is here. Managing this data is no small feat. This webinar brings together FHWA, State, and Industry experts to offer strategies and insights to help agencies understand the opportunities and considerations in evol
TSMO Performance Management Program Plan Development – Oregon Department of Transportation
- 2021
- Communicating Reliability Information
- Data Acquisition, Support and Hosting
- NOCoE
- Performance Management
- Performance Management
- Planning Analysis Tools
- Planning Analysis Tools
- Presentation
- Presentation
- System Performance Definition, Monitoring and Reporting
- Webinar
- Webinar
- Webinar
During the Strategic Highway Research Program 2 (SHRP2) effort – the resulting data showed that transportation agencies collect a tremendous amount of data, however, no agency has achieved a fully integrated Performance Measurement system that links inputs, outputs, outcomes, and targets into a f
Adventures in Crowdsourcing: Active Work Zone Monitoring and Management
- 2021
- Data Acquisition, Support and Hosting
- NOCoE
- Planning Analysis Tools
- Presentation
- Presentation
- Webinar
- Webinar
- Webinar
- Work Zone Management
- Work Zone Traffic Management
This jointly sponsored webinar between the FHWA Work Zone Roundtable and the EDC-6 Crowdsourcing for Advancing Operations initiative spotlights the use of crowdsourced data to support active work zone monitoring, management, and performance reporting.
Moderator
Daniel G
Making TSMO more Effective Through Active Management
- 2021
- NOCoE
- Performance Management
- Planning Analysis Tools
- Presentation
- Presentation
- System Performance Definition, Monitoring and Reporting
- Webinar
- Webinar
- Webinar
Active Management entails improving system operations by moving from strategy application based on a fixed timeframe to one that is dynamic and adaptive to changing current and future conditions. TSMO involves implementing a set of strategies that improve an agency’s existing transportation syste