Overview
Automated Traffic Signal Performance Measures are fueling a transformation in how transportation agencies approach the management, operations and maintenance of signalized intersections. A Transportation Pooled Fund Study lead by Indiana DOT, facilitated the research and development of data collection and data analysis processes to extract High Resolution Data (HRD) using several different traffic signal controller platforms and detector configurations. Utah DOT developed Open Source software and led an AASHTO Innovation Initiative to share their software, knowledge and experience about active approaches to managing traffic signal infrastructure.
In addition to the UDOT Open Source software, several vendor led options have emerged to provide performance measurement solutions for agencies under a diverse range of organizational capability and infrastructure situations. 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. ATSPMs empower agencies to provide signal operations that safer, promote greater mobility, reduce congestion and demonstrate fiscal responsibility.
This webinar is the first in 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.