2023 TSMO Virtual Summit
The 2023 TSMO Virtual Summit was held on September 26th and 28th, 2023. At the end of the Summit, NOCoE aspires that:
- Thought leaders have shared learnings to establish an understanding of the problem.
- Examples of current and emerging technologies/practices to frame what works and what is on the horizon.
- A set of priorities and action items that will help and enable TSMO initiatives.
- Communications and outreach goals to elevate the successes of TSMO practices.
2nd Workforce Summit Proceedings Report
On September 20 and 23, 2021, the 2nd Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO) Workforce Development Summit was held virtually. Participation included a broad range of over fifty state DOT, city, county, planning organization, academic, association and industry representatives. This included a blend of TSMO practitioners and human resource (HR) professionals. As Martin Knopp, Associate Administer for Operations, FHWA, said, NOCoE gathered the “hall of fame of TSMO practitioners.”
Funding and Capital Improvement Process
On August 7-8, 2019, the National Operations Center of Excellence convened a group of transportation systems management and operations (TSMO) practitioners from state, regional and local transportation agencies to discuss major practices around funding and planning for TSMO within their transportation departments. The two goals of the 2019 NOCoE TSMO Summit on Funding and Capital Improvement Process Integration were to:
1. Identify the current practices for funding of TSMO.
2. Identify current practices, along with research and resource needs, for integrating TSMO into the capital improvement process.
This report not only encapsulates the findings of the summit, discovered thanks to the contributions of specific agencies that prepared materials and participated, but also provides details on how TSMO is currently deployed in a variety of transportation agencies. The in-depth discussion that captured specific best practices also identified gaps in how TSMO is deployed and funded inside transportation agency processes. Practitioners also identified a number of research and resource needs to efficiently advance the adoption of TSMO.
2016 Workforce Summit Proceedings and Implementation Plan
The National Operations Center of Excellence’s (NOCoE) identified workforce development as one of the focus areas that would provide value to the Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO) community and hosted a two-day summit on TSMO workforce development on June 22–23, 2016. The proceedings and findings from its two-day workforce development summit are presented in this document for the TSMO community, participants and partners. The goal of the summit was to identify viable actions that NOCoE can either influence and encouragement the development of additional resources for TSMO workforce development. In preparation for the summit, NOCoE produced three white papers focused on the current workforce environment for the TSMO community prepared in advance of the summit. The white papers provided context and discussion starting points by focusing on four key issues: institutional context for TSMO in transportation agencies, professional capacity building needs vs. available resources, recruitment, retention, and career development.
Read ahead materials and more information on the summit can be found here.
Peer Exchange Reports
2024
2026 FIFA World Cup Planning Workshop Report
This workshop was organized to prepare for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, focusing on transportation systems management and operations (TSMO) strategies to ensure safe and efficient mobility. The event featured presentations, roundtable discussions, and networking opportunities, with speakers from various transportation and security agencies sharing their expertise and insights.
Emergency Operations and TSMO Peer Exchange
This peer exchange shared knowledge, best practices, and innovations that helped foster on-going collaborations with professionals. The exchange contributes to continuous improvement, ensuring transportation systems, management and operations are safer and more resilient in the face of disasters.
Work Zone Management and TSMO Peer Exchange
This peer exchange hosted transportation agency professionals with experience and interest in developing, implementing, and managing maintenance and construction work zones.
2023
Funding for TSMO New Opportunities Peer Exchange
This peer exchange hosted transportation agency professionals with experience in developing, implementing, and justifying to decision-makers funding requests for TSMO projects and programs to support policy makers and agency leadership.
Planning for TSMO Peer Exchange
This peer exchange focused on integrating management and operations strategies into transportation planning to improve system performance and foster collaboration among local, regional, and state agencies.
Public Communications and TSMO Peer Exchange
This peer exchange helped share information on best practices, regular challenges, and resources needs around public communications and transportation systems management and operations (TSMO).
Benefit-Cost and TSMO Peer Exchange
This peer exchange hosted transportation agency professionals with experience in developing, implementing, and justifying to decision-makers benefit-cost and/or return on investment analyses for TSMO projects and programs to support policy makers and agency leadership.
2022
Regional Collaborations Peer Exchange
This peer exchange focused on collaboration in a regional context, and had representatives of local agencies, metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), state departments of transportation (DOTs), and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).
Road Weather Management Peer Exchange
This peer exchange hosted transportation agency professionals with experience in developing and implementing road weather management strategies.
This peer exchange hosted practitioners experienced in developing and implementing ICM deployments, and practitioners looking to develop new ICM sites.
This peer exchange followed the Center’s second Workforce Development Summit that took place in September 2021. The Summit engaged TSMO thought leaders to identify the workforce challenges and needs of the future and to consider how best the Center continue to focus on workforce matters given its importance as one of three NOCoE Strategic Goals.
Innovative Practices in TSMO Peer Exchange
This peer exchange focused on workforce trends, challenges, and success stories shared by state and local transportation agencies.
Data Governance for TSMO Peer Exchange
This peer exchange helped share knowledge between operations practitioners from transportation public agencies and other stakeholder groups.
2021
Innovative Procurement and Contracting Peer Exchange
This peer exchange brought together TSMO professional and contracting experts that work with the agencies to procure TSMO services and projects. They discussed procuring technology, performance based contracts, leveraging funding, and more.
TSMO and MOD Integration Peer Exchange
This peer exchange focused on the application of MOD in the TSMO space, examining the MOD building blocks of data services, and infrastructure services and operations services as crosscutting topic related to integration of Mobility on Demand (MOD) and TSMO.
2020
Asset Management Peer Exchange
This peer exchange covered Defining Transportation Asset Management for TSMO and ITS, Developing Inventories for TSMO and ITS Assets, Tracking and Updating TSMO and ITS Inventories, and Operating and Maintaining TSMO and ITS Assets.
Organizing for TSMO: 2020 Peer Exchange
In this peer exchange, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) hosted a group of Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO) leaders to share their agencies' experiences in advancing TSMO programs.
2019
Operations and Maintenance Peer Exchange
Hosted by the Alabama Department of Transportation, this peer exchange helped facilitate a transfer of knowledge between state DOT operations and maintenance practitioners around the country.
Regional and Local Agency Peer Exchange
This peer exchange brought together regional and local agencies from across the US to discuss the deployment of TSMO practices with various regional and local structures, lessons learned from implementing TSMO programs in local and regional agencies, and how to encourage the adoption of TSMO practices.
Smart Work Zones Peer Exchange
In this peer exchange, State DOTs discussed how Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO) can support more efficient work zone operation.
Road Weather Management Peer Exchange
This peer exchange helped to identify key activities and actions required to advance the practice of road weather management across the country.
2018
This peer exchange helped facilitate the knowledge transfer between TSMO and freight practitioners of transportation public agencies, private agencies, and other stakeholder groups.
Performance-Based Contracting Peer Exchange
In this peer exchange, State DOTs discussed and shared the successes and challenges of executing a performance-based contract with a focus on Traffic Operations Centers and Freeway Service Patrols.
2018 SPaT Challenge Peer Exchange
In this peer exchange, State DOTs discussed and shared the successes and challenges of deploying SPaT Challenge.
2017
Multi-State Peer Exchange: Communicating the Future of Transportation
In this peer exchange, attendees discussed how communications can assist and enable transportation systems management & operations and transportation technology.
Regional and Local TSMO Peer Exchange
In this peer exchange, attendees discussed the roles of regional and local agencies in Transportation Systems Management & Operations (TSMO).
TSMO Strategies Peer Exchange at STSMO-SCOWCT Annual Meeting
In this peer exchange, State DOTs discussed and shared the successes and challenges of advancing TSMO strategies.
2016
This peer exchange covered topics such as Emerging technologies for connected vehicle infrastructure readiness, TSMO business processes & planning, and TSMO performance measures & management.
TMC Staffing & Operations Peer Exchange
This peer exchange brought together agencies from across the United States to share some of their best practices, challenges, and lessons learned, as they have refined their own TMC operations.