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.
Washtenaw Community College: How Collaboration Between Education and Industry Can Advance the Transportation Workforce
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- Case Studies & Lessons Learned
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- Training and Profesional Development
This case study looks at how Washtenaw Community College (WCC), located in southeastern Michigan, leveraged the experience of the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT), local Michigan Road Commissions and the burgeoning automotive and transportation technology sector, to tackle the short-a
Corridor Wide Planning Ahead of the Amtrak Cascades Derailment
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- Case Studies & Lessons Learned
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- Emergency Transportation Operations
- Emergency Transportation Operations for Disasters
- Interagency Agreements / Cooperation / MOUs
- Leadership
- Leadership/Championship
- Local government/MPO/RTPA cooperation
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- Public safety agency collaboration
- Traffic Incident Management
- Traffic Incident Management
On the morning of December 18, 2017, Amtrak train 501 derailed near DuPont, Washington, causing railcars and one locomotive to fall onto Interstate 5 (I-5), hitting several passenger cars and shutting down the freeway. I-5 southbound was ultimately blocked for 57 hours, an impressive accomp
Drone Use During the Amtrak Cascades Derailment and Response
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- Business Processes/Policies and Procedures
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- Case Studies & Lessons Learned
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- Emergency Transportation Operations
- Emergency Transportation Operations
- Emergency Transportation Operations for Disasters
- Emergency Transportation Operations for Disasters
- Justification
- Leadership/Championship
- Learning
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- Outsourcing/PPP
- TSMO Culture
On the morning of December 18, 2017, Amtrak train 501 derailed near DuPont, Washington, causing railcars and one locomotive to fall onto Interstate 5 (I-5), hitting several passenger cars and shutting down the freeway. I-5 southbound was ultimately blocked for 57 hours, an impressive accomp
I-85 Bridge Collapse and Rebuild
- Active Management and TSMO
- Active Traffic Management (ATM)
- Active Traffic Management/Travel Demand Management/Pricing
- Business Processes/Policies and Procedures
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- Case Studies & Lessons Learned
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- Communicating Reliability Information
- Emergency Transportation Operations
- Emergency Transportation Operations for Disasters
- Freeway Management
- Justification
- Leadership/Championship
- Learning
- Local government/MPO/RTPA cooperation
- NOCoE
- Outsourcing/PPP
- Programming/Budget/Funding
- TSMO Culture
- Traffic Incident Management
- Traffic Incident Management
- Traveler Information
- Traveler Information
- Work Zone Management
- Work Zone Traffic Management
On March 30, 2017, a massive fire caused a section of Interstate 85 (I-85) in Atlanta to collapse. After the fire was extinguished, it was determined that 700 feet of both the northbound and southbound lanes required demolition and reconstruction, resulting in the closure of a
NCDOT and NCSHP Agency Collaboration
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- Case Studies & Lessons Learned
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The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) and North Carolina State Highway Patrol (NCSHP) joined together on strategic programs to support both organizations’ missions of providing safe roadways in the state. NCDOT operates and maintains nearly 80,000 miles of highwa