Freeway Management StateofthePractice Paper

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Freeway Management State-of-the-Practice Paper

• Freeway Operations Committee
• Research Sucommittee
• July 21, 2002
• Les Jacobson
• PB Farradyne

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Agenda

• Purpose of the SOP
• Annotated Outline
• Review comments
• Decisions/changes made
• Draft white paper status
• Input needed from subcommittee
• Discussion and comment
• Schedule
• Next steps and review/comment activities

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State-of-the-Practice Paper Purpose

• Assess and summarize the state-of-the-practice
• Provide basis for research program
• Methods
• Identify state of the practice
• Freeway management
• Freeway traffic operations
• TMC
• Identify gaps between state-of-the practice and
  state-of-the-art
• Identify research areas to address gaps

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Intended Audience

• Mid-level to senior public sector managers
• Freeway / Traffic Managers
• Researchers
• Research program decision-makers
• Private sector that support these positions

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Scope of Paper

• Operational focus
• Whats being done
• Not an evaluation
• Highway operations
• Urban and Rural freeways
• Use the gaps between state of the practice and
  state of the art to provide basis for pursuing
  research
• Priority areas
• Possible topics

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Annotated Outline

• Distributed to Review Group
• June 10
• Comments on June 24
• Original Sections
• Introduction and Purpose
• Background
• State of the Art
• State of the Practice
• Gaps
• Recommendations

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Review Comments General

• Length of paper should be 10 pages or fewer
• Some suggestions on how to limit the number of
  pages
• Have State of the Practice precede State of the
  Art
• Include toll roads and electronic toll collection

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Review Comments General (cont.)

• Importance of technology support to success
• Divide into sections based on function
• Include importance of funding
• Emphasize TOC performance measures
• Discuss congestion problem up front

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Review Comments State of the Art vs Practice

• Various thoughts, but relatively consistent
• Composite, shortened definition
• State of the Practice proven best practices for
  the requirements of the system
• State of the Art leading edge application of
  innovative practices that are deployed

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Review Comments State of the Art vs Practice
(cont.)

• There are practices beyond state of the art that
  need testing / field implementation
• Move some discussion in Background to State of
  Practice
• Tie state of the art to architecture and
  standards efforts

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Review Comments Signals

• Not clear where a practitioner should go for
  freeway/signal integration
• Integrated metering/signals warrants more research

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Review Comments Incident Management

• Why is IM not discussed in depth?
• IM is integral to Freeway Management and would
  like to see more done with it

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Review Comments Traveler Information

• Include pre-trip information as well and en-route

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Revised White Paper Organization

• Introduction and Purpose
• Similar to original
• Background
• Move the description of systems to SOP
• State of the Practice
• Describe proven, effective practices in common
  practice
• Provide sense that SOP is different based on
  system goals

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Revised White Paper Organization (cont.)

• State of the Art
• Describe leading edge practices in operation
• Not bleeding edge that arent deployed
• Gaps
• Identify gaps that keep systems from moving from
  SOP to SOA
• Recommendations
• Identify actions to help move SOP toward SOA

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White Paper Status

• (Will fill this in just before the meeting to be
  up to date)

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Input Needed from the Subcommittee Review Group

• Feedback today about the direction headed
• Review and comment on preliminary draft
• Review and comment on draft
• Webconference in early November

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Schedule

• Preliminary Draft
• Rough draft complete
• Draft October 31
• Web conference in early November
• Final December 31