Integrated Corridor Management Initiative

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Integrated Corridor ManagementInitiative

• Dale Thompson
• Transportation Specialist
• Office of Operations RD
• May 4, 2005

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ITS Initiatives

• USDOT ITS program reoriented to focus on fewer,
  larger, higher-risk, high-payoff major
  initiatives
• Nine Major initiatives were approved by the
  Management Council
• Directly support USDOTs goals of safety,
  mobility and global connectivity
• Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) is one of
  the major ITS initiatives started in 2004

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Corridors

• Currently surface transportation systems are made
  up of several independent networks
• Freeways, including managed lanes
• Arterials
• Bus Routes
• Rail Transit
• Efforts to date to reduce congestion have
  focused on optimization of individual networks
• These adjacent network links overlay to form
  transportation corridors
• Metropolitan areas contain several major
  corridors
• Corridors offer an opportunity to operate and
  optimize the entire corridor system as opposed to
  the individual networks

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Integrated Corridor Management
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Initial Definitions

• Corridor
• A corridor is defined as a combination of
  discrete adjacent surface transportation networks
  (e.g., freeway, arterial, transit networks) that
  link the same major origins and destinations.
• Integrated Corridor Management (ICM)
• Integrated corridor management is the
  coordination of individual network operations
  between adjacent facilities that creates an
  interconnected system capable of cross-network
  travel management.

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Integrated Corridor Management Initiative

• Purpose
• The initiative will demonstrate that ITS
  technologies can be used to efficiently and
  proactively manage the movement of people and
  goods in major transportation corridors by
  facilitating integration of the management of all
  the networks in a corridor.
• Goal
• The goal of the Integrated Corridor Management
  Initiative is to provide the institutional
  guidance, operational capabilities, and ITS
  technical methods needed for effective Integrated
  Corridor Management Systems.

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Integrated Corridor Management Initiative

• Vision
• Improved mobility through integrated management
  of transportation assets freeways, arterials,
  transit, managed lanes in major transportation
  corridors in metropolitan areas
• Approach
• Address Institutional, operational, and technical
  barriers to successful integrated corridor
  management
• Demonstrate how mobility, safety and productivity
  can be increased in major corridors by
• Efficient, effective, proactive use of ITS
  technology
• Improved use of real-time data sharing
• Implementing demand management strategies

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Missing Integration

• Institutional Integration
• Lack of operational capability and technology
  that supports cross network distribution of
  responsibilities and sharing of control
• Operational Integration
• Lack of integrated cross network operational
  strategies and analysis capabilities
• Technical Integration
• Lack of cross network device-to-device data,
  communication, and procedure integration

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ICM Program Plan
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ICM Roadmap Phase 1
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Stakeholder Involvement

• Stakeholder Work Group
• 20 representatives
• Request For Information (RFI)
• Gather information on corridor management
  activities
• Study to identify needs
• 18 Responses
• Stakeholder Workshops
• June 22 and 29 (one workshop, two locations)
• ITSA
• Website http//www.itsa.org/icm.html
• Conference
• Model Deployment Candidate Sites

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Model Deployment Site Selection Approach

• Two-phased Approach
• Select candidate sites
• Select model deployment site from candidate sites

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Phase 1 Foundational Research

• Team Siemens ITS, TransCore, Dunn, SAIC,
  University of Virginia, Transystems, Howard /
  Stein-Hudson
• Major Activities
• Program management stakeholder meetings
• Definitions, criteria for delineating a corridor,
  relationship to regional ITS
• Generic Concept of Operations for ICMS
• ICM system requirements
• Document successful local integration efforts
• Identify corridor types, operational approaches /
  strategies, analysis tools
• Analyze associated operational, institutional,
  technical integration issues
• Develop ICM development feasibility report /
  briefing
• Assist with MDI effort

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Phase 1 Activities To Date

• Definitions
• corridor
• integrated corridor management
• Concepts for Delineating Corridor Boundaries
• Relationship Between Corridor Regional
  Management
• Outline for Generic Concept of Operations
• Stakeholder Meetings
• Other Ongoing Activities
• Review RFI responses, draft generic Con Ops,
  corridor types and strategies / operational
  approaches, simulation modeling

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ICMS Concept of Operations

• Concept of Operations is Integral Part of
  Systems Engineering Process
• High-level description of what the major system
  capabilities will be in ICM
• ICMS Con Ops a Formal Document Providing a
  User-Oriented Vision of ICM System
• Can be understood by a wide variety of
  stakeholders (different operational technical
  experience)
• Engage stakeholders soliciting input feedback
• Generic ICMS Con Ops Will Serve as Template for
  Each MDI Candidate to Develop Their Corridor
  Specific Con Ops

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ICMS Concept of Operations

• Outline Based on FHWA Document Developing and
  Using a Concept of Operations in Transportation
  Management Systems
• Overlap in content between sections

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Con Ops Operational Scenarios

• Normal operations (recurring congestion Traffic
  and Transit)
• Scheduled events (special event / work zone)
• Evacuation
• Roadway, Transit, and Rail incidents
• Multiple simultaneous scenarios
• Others (as identified by stakeholders)

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ICM Contacts and Information

• Mike Freitas, DOT JPO
• Mike.Freitas_at_fhwa.dot.gov
• John Harding, FHWA Office of Operations
  John.Harding_at_fhwa.dot.gov
• Dale Thompson, FHWA Office of Operations RD
  Dale.Thompson_at_fhwa.dot.gov
• ICM Website
• http//www.itsa.org/icm.html