Integrating M

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Integrating M O Into Your Plan The
Practitioners Perspective
First Steps in funding and planning for
operations projects at the Puget Sound Regional
Council

• AMPO 2007 Annual Conference
• Little Rock, Arkansas
• Charlie Howard, Transportation Planning Director
• Puget Sound Regional Council

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About PSRC Funding

• PSRC selects projects for four sources of funding
  - 160 million/year
• Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ )
• Surface Transportation Program( STP)
• Federal Transit Administration (FTA) 5307
  5309
• An adopted Policy Framework provides direction
  for PSRC investments based on policies from
  the regional growth plan (VISION 2020), the
  regional transportation plan (Destination 2030),
  and from the Regional Economic Strategy. 
• Most projects are for capital purposes

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Traffic Busters A Regional Operations Initiative
During the 2006 process a stand alone traffic
operations project was funded for the first time
- Traffic Busters. 
Phase 1 - Integrating state and local ITS data
systems into a regional network - State/local
camera coordinationPhase 2 - regional data
collection - signal coordination - coordinated
incident management plans
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Smartening up the System Active Traffic
Management
MS4 driver Information panel
CCTV camera
Lighting Columns
Fixed direction signing
Lane specific signals
CEC cabinet
Emergency Roadside Telephone
Lightweight Gantries
MIDAS
Hard Shoulder running
Emergency Refuge areas
Continue
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Puget Sound Regional Signal Review Primary
Recommendation Build stronger regional
leadership

• Also need Regional
• Funding
• Information Sharing
• Training
• Performance Monitoring
• Uniformity Guidance

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New Regional Traffic Operations Committee (RTOC)

• Advisory Committee to the Transportation Policy
  Board
• Promotes regional collaboration approach to
  regional traffic operations
• Emphasis on
• Traffic signal coordination
• Regional traffic operations (Active Traffic
  Management) at arterial and freeway levels
• Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)

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Regional Traffic Operations Committee2007-2008
Work Plan

• Regional Concept of Transportation Operations
  Primary focus is on regional coordination of
  signal operations.
• Answers Who? How? When?
• Identifies and documents existing standards,
  procedures and performance measures
• Builds upon the existing practice and develop
  draft regional concept of operations guidance
• Regional ITS Implementation Plan Joint vision
  for deploying ITS investments throughout the
  Region across jurisdictional and institutional
  divisions.
• Answers What? Where? When?
• Stresses importance of collaborative partnerships
  between transportation agencies, emergency
  management, transit and freight interests
• Identifies key corridor projects to achieve this
  joint vision for ITS in the Region

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For More Information
Charlie Howard, Transportation Planning
Director Puget Sound Regional Council 206-464-7122
choward_at_psrc.org
Robin Mayhew, Regional Mobility Manager Puget
Sound Regional Council 206-464-7537 rmayhew_at_psrc.o
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