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North/West Passage Work Plan

  • 2015
  • Access Management
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This webpage contains all of the North/West Passage Work Plan Phase Summaries. There are 9 phases total, beginning in December 2003 and continuing to today. Each Phase has multiple projects within it, and each project has a final report, all of which are accessible through this webpage.

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Research

Next Generation Traffic Data and Incident Detection from Video

  • 2014
  • Active Management and TSMO
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  • Traffic Incident Management
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The goal of this project was to document the potential for Video Analytics to be used by traffic operations centers (TOCs) and for traffic data collection. Video Analytics Systems in Iowa, Missouri, and Ontario were tested and evaluated. The components included: Traffic Data Collection (comparing

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Research

Highway Advisory Radio Best Practices and Future Direction

  • 2014
  • Access Management
  • Active Management and TSMO
  • Active Parking Management
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Highway Advisory Radio (HAR) had been in use since the 1970s as a tool for government organizations to report public information via radio. HAR is most often used by departments of transportation, to report about road conditions, construction, and other traffic conditions.

The purpose o

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Standards & Recommended Practices

Planning Guidance for Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Devices

  • 2014
  • Access Management
  • Active Management and TSMO
  • Active Traffic Management (ATM)
  • Adaptive Signal Control Technology
  • Advanced Communications
  • Advanced Traffic Signal Control
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  • Arterial Traffic Control Device Operations
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  • Communications
  • Corridor and Arterial Traffic Management
  • Decision Criteria for ITS Device Type and Location
  • Decision Criteria for ITS Device Type and Location
  • Engineer
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  • Integrated ITS Deployment
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  • Operator
  • Other Research Organizations
  • Other/General
  • Performance Management
  • Planning
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  • Principal Engineer
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  • Publications
  • Real Time Traveler Information
  • Regional Traffic Signal Operations & Program Management
  • Researcher/Academic
  • Standards
  • Standards & Recommended Practices
  • Statewide and Regional Integration
  • System Architecture
  • Systems engineering
  • TSMO Asset Management
  • Technician
  • Traffic Signal Timing
  • Traffic Signal Timing Software
  • Transit Professional
  • Transportation Planner
  • Traveler Information
  • Traveler Information
  • Traveler Information
  • Work Zone Management
  • Work Zone Traffic Management
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This document is a summary of the activities completed in order to develop warrants for Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) devices, including Closed Circuit Television, Dynamic Message Signs, Highway Advisory Radio, Road Weather Information Systems, Variable Speed Limit Signs, Dynamic Speed

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Standards & Recommended Practices

Design and Evaluation Guidance for Intersection Conflict Warning Systems

  • 2011
  • Active Traffic Management/Travel Demand Management/Pricing
  • Advanced Communications
  • Advanced Traffic Signal Control
  • Arterial Traffic Control Device Operations
  • Associate Engineer
  • Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL)
  • Communications
  • Corridor and Arterial Traffic Management
  • Decision Criteria for ITS Device Type and Location
  • Detection Systems
  • Director / Program Manager
  • Emergency Transportation Operations for Disasters
  • Engineer
  • GIS tools
  • Hazard Identification
  • ITS standards and specifications
  • Manager / First Line Supervisor
  • Operator
  • Other Research Organizations
  • Other/General
  • Performance Management
  • Planning
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  • Principal Engineer
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  • Public Safety Officer
  • Publications
  • Real Time Traveler Information
  • Regional Traffic Signal Operations & Program Management
  • Senior Engineer
  • Senior Manager
  • Standards
  • Standards
  • Standards & Recommended Practices
  • Standards and Interoperability
  • Statewide and Regional Integration
  • Systems engineering
  • Technician
  • Traffic Impact Assessment
  • Traffic Signal Timing
  • Traffic Signal Timing Software
  • Transit Professional
  • Transportation Planner
  • Traveler Information
  • Traveler Information
  • Traveler Information
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Intersection crashes are a significant contributor to the number of transportation fatalities and serious injuries across the country. In recent years, multiple intersection conflict warning systems (ICWS) have been developed and used in many different states and locations, without sufficient gui

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State-of-the Practice

2014 National Strategy for Transportation Security

  • 2015
  • Active Management and TSMO
  • Active Traffic Management (ATM)
  • Active Traffic Management/Travel Demand Management/Pricing
  • CEO / GM / Commissioner
  • Corridor and Arterial Traffic Management
  • Cyber security
  • Cybersecurity
  • Director / Program Manager
  • Emergency Transportation Operations
  • Emergency Transportation Operations
  • Emergency Transportation Operations for Disasters
  • Emergency Transportation Operations for Disasters
  • Employee Health and Safety
  • Freeway Management
  • Freeway Operations
  • Freight Management Operations
  • Infrastructure Protection
  • Interagency Agreements / Cooperation / MOUs
  • Local government/MPO/RTPA cooperation
  • Manager / First Line Supervisor
  • Performance Management
  • Planning
  • Principal Engineer
  • Project Systems Engineering
  • Public
  • Public Safety Officer
  • Public safety agency collaboration
  • Publications
  • Researcher/Academic
  • Resilience
  • Risk Management
  • Risk Management
  • Roadway Safety Services / Roadway Safety Patrol
  • Senior Engineer
  • Senior Manager
  • State-of-the Practice
  • Strategic Planning
  • System Architecture
  • System Architecture / Engineering
  • Technology Tracker
  • Traffic Incident Management
  • Transit Operations
  • Travel Demand Management
    • |PDF

The 2014 National Strategy for Transportation Security (NSTS) addresses the security of transportation in the United States. This report to Congress outlines a plan to protect and facilitate the ability of both people and goods to be moved in the safest ways possible, while ensuring and protectin

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Standards & Recommended Practices

Standard Highway Signs - 2012 Supplement

  • 2012
  • Access Management
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  • Active Parking Management
  • Active Parking Management
  • Active Traffic Management (ATM)
  • Active Traffic Management/Travel Demand Management/Pricing
  • Adaptive Signal Control Technology
  • Advanced Traffic Signal Control
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  • Bicycles and Pedestrians
  • Corridor and Arterial Traffic Management
  • Engineer
  • FHWA
  • Freeway Management
  • Freeway Operations
  • Freight Management Operations
  • HOV Lanes / HOT Lanes
  • Integrated Corridor Management
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  • Maintenance Staff
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  • Other/General
  • Planned Special Event Management
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  • Principal Engineer
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  • Standards
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  • Traffic Signal Timing
  • Transit Operations
  • Transit Professional
  • Transit Signal Priority
  • Transit Signal Priority
  • Transportation Planner
  • Travel Demand Management
  • Traveler Information
  • Traveler Information
  • Work Zone Management
  • Work Zone Traffic Management
    • |PDF

The Standard Highway Signs is a compilation of the signs used in transportation in accordance with the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD). This document is a supplement to the 2004 edition of the Standard Highway Signs (for use with the 2003 MUTCD). The 2012 supplement was dev

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Standards & Recommended Practices

Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD)

  • 2005-2009
  • Access Management
  • Active Management and TSMO
  • Active Parking Management
  • Active Parking Management
  • Active Traffic Management (ATM)
  • Active Traffic Management/Travel Demand Management/Pricing
  • Adaptive Signal Control Technology
  • Advanced Communications
  • Advanced Traffic Signal Control
  • Advanced Traffic Signal Control
  • Arterial Traffic Control Device Operations
  • Associate Engineer
  • Bicycles and Pedestrians
  • CEO / GM / Commissioner
  • Commercial vehicle size and weight
  • Communications
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  • Connected Vehicles
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  • Corridor and Arterial Traffic Management
  • Curbside Management/Delivery
  • Director / Program Manager
  • Emergency Transportation Operations
  • Emergency Transportation Operations for Disasters
  • Engineer
  • Equipment Management
  • FHWA
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  • Freeway Operations
  • Freight Management Operations
  • Freight Technology and Operations
  • Gravel Road Maintenance
  • HOV Lanes / HOT Lanes
  • Integrated Corridor Management
  • Integrated Corridor Management
  • Integrated ITS Deployment
  • Local government/MPO/RTPA cooperation
  • Maintenance Staff
  • Maintenance and Operations
  • Maintenance and Operations
  • Maintenance and Operations
  • Maintenance and Operations
  • Maintenance and Operations
  • Maintenance and Operations
  • Maintenance and Operations
  • Maintenance and Operations
  • Maintenance and Operations
  • Manager / First Line Supervisor
  • Media / PIO
  • Municipal Operations
  • Operator
  • Other/General
  • Planned Special Event Management
  • Planned Special Event Management
  • Pothole Repair
  • Pricing / Toll Roads
  • Principal Engineer
  • Project Design
  • Project Systems Engineering
  • Public
  • Public Safety Officer
  • Publications
  • Ramp Management and Control
  • Ramp Metering
  • Real Time Traveler Information
  • Regional Architectures
  • Regional Traffic Signal Operations & Program Management
  • Researcher/Academic
  • Road Weather Management
  • Road Weather Management
  • Roadside Maintenance
  • Roadway Geometric Design
  • Roadway Geometric Design
  • Roadway Lighting
  • Roadway Striping
  • Senior Engineer
  • Senior Manager
  • Sidewalk and Trail Maintenance/Management
  • Sign Maintenance and Replacement
  • Standards
  • Standards & Recommended Practices
  • Standards and Interoperability
  • Statewide and Regional Integration
  • System Architecture
  • System Architecture / Engineering
  • Technician
  • Testing, Verification & Validation (V&V)
  • Traffic Incident Management
  • Traffic Incident Management
  • Traffic Signal Timing
  • Transit Operations
  • Transit Professional
  • Transit Signal Priority
  • Transit Signal Priority
  • Transportation Planner
  • Travel Demand Management
  • Traveler Information
  • Traveler Information
  • Traveler Information
  • Vehicle Systems/Connected Vehicles
  • Work Zone Management
  • Work Zone Traffic Management
    • |PDF

The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) is a compilation of national standards for all traffic control devices. It is used by road managers to install and maintain the correct traffic control devices on all public streets, highways, bikeways, and private roads open to public travel.

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Standards & Recommended Practices

Regional Transportation Operations Collaboration and Coordination: A Primer for Working Together to Improve Transportation Safety, Reliability, and Security

  • 2000-2004
  • Access Management
  • Active Management and TSMO
  • Active Traffic Management (ATM)
  • Advanced Communications
  • Arterial Traffic Control Device Operations
  • Bicycles and Pedestrians
  • Communicating Reliability Information
  • Communications
  • Corridor and Arterial Traffic Management
  • Customer Request Management
  • Director / Program Manager
  • Emergency Transportation Operations
  • Emergency Transportation Operations
  • Emergency Transportation Operations for Disasters
  • Emergency Transportation Operations for Disasters
  • FHWA
  • Integrated Corridor Management
  • Integrated Corridor Management
  • Integrated ITS Deployment
  • Interagency Agreements / Cooperation / MOUs
  • Local government/MPO/RTPA cooperation
  • Manager / First Line Supervisor
  • Operator
  • Other/General
  • Performance Management
  • Planned Special Event Management
  • Planned Special Event Management
  • Planned Special Event Management
  • Planned Special Events Traffic Management
  • Planning
  • Planning Analysis Tools
  • Planning for Operations
  • Programming/Budget/Funding
  • Project Systems Engineering
  • Public Safety Officer
  • Publications
  • Regional Architectures
  • Regional Traffic Signal Operations & Program Management
  • Road Weather Management
  • Road Weather Management
  • Road Weather Management
  • Road Weather Management
  • Senior Manager
  • Standards & Recommended Practices
  • Statewide and Regional Integration
  • System Architecture
  • System Architecture / Engineering
  • Systems engineering
  • Technician
  • Traffic Impact Assessment
  • Traffic Incident Management
  • Traffic Incident Management
  • Traffic Incident Management
  • Traffic Incident Management
  • Transportation Planner
    • |PDF
The goal of this document is to aid managers and officials in constant collaboration with each other. It helps those professionals understand what regional collaboration entails, why it is important, and how to begin. It will also help previously established relationships improve their coordination
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Getting More By Working Together-Opportunities for Linking Planning and Operations: A Reference Manual

  • 2000-2004
  • Arterial Traffic Control Device Operations
  • Asset Management
  • Business Processes/Policies and Procedures
  • Corridor and Arterial Traffic Management
  • Director / Program Manager
  • FHWA
  • ITS System architecture
  • Integrated Corridor Management
  • Integrated Corridor Management
  • Integrated ITS Deployment
  • Interagency Agreements / Cooperation / MOUs
  • Local government/MPO/RTPA cooperation
  • Manager / First Line Supervisor
  • Organizational Models
  • Other/General
  • Performance Management
  • Performance Management
  • Planning
  • Planning for Operations
  • Procurement
  • Programming/Budget/Funding
  • Project Systems Engineering
  • Publications
  • Regional Architectures
  • Regional Traffic Signal Operations & Program Management
  • Senior Manager
  • Standards & Recommended Practices
  • Statewide and Regional Integration
  • System Architecture
  • System Architecture
  • System Architecture / Engineering
  • Systems engineering
  • TSMO Asset Management
  • Transportation Planner
    • |PDF

This resource guide's purpose is to help planning and operations managers understand why working together is valuable, and further understand the benefits of pursuing management and operations strategies at the regional scale. The guide explains how existing relationships can be strengthened, and

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