Background

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Background

• Lake County
• 24 x 20 mi area
• Population 690,000
• 52 municipalities
• Congestion
• No freeways
• Limited 4-lane arterials
• Transportation controversies

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PASSAGE Goals

• Countywide
• 1. Improved signal system coordination
• 2. Enhanced real time traffic monitoring
• 3. Improved incident/event management

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Benefits

• Time savings to motorists from
• Improved signal system coordination
• Get more greens
• Better real time traffic monitoring
• Drivers have better information
• Improved event management
• Someone takes corrective action

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Two Opportunity Factors

• Lake Countys good fortune
• Institutional Arrangements
• Funding

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Institutional Arrangements

• Measured by number of signals
• 435 IDOT
• 144 County
• 82 Municipal (12 of 52)
• 661 signals total

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Institutional Arrangements

• Existing and proposed signals
• LDOT
• Econolite 144
• IDOT
• Econolite 186
• Eagle 96
• Unknown or Proposed 153
• Local Municipalities
• Econolite 51
• Eagle 15
• Other 16
• 661 signals total

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Institutional Arrangements

• Two major players
• IDOT
• County
• Only 12 supplemental players

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Funding

• Phase 1A cost 6.3 million
• 42 federal ITS earmarks
• 16 special federal earmark
• 42 county local match
• In-kind state assistance
• IDOT
• ISTHA
• GCM Corridor

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What is in Lake County PASSAGE?

• i.e. What Intelligent Transportation System
  Technologies are being used?

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ITS Technologies

• Briefly, Phase 1A includes

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ITS Technologies

• 1 Fiber optic network
• 2 Connect traffic signals
• 3 Install TSS
• 4 Initiate HAR
• 5 CAD
• 6 Video camera
• 7 GCM link

• 8 DMS
• 9 ATMS
• 10 Event management
• 11 Congestion management
• 12 Traveler info
• 13 Maintenance management

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1. Fiber Optic Network

• Start fiber backbone network (79 miles)
• Gigabit Ethernet
• Mesh topology
• Redundant paths
• Fault tolerant
• Fill in existing gaps (14 mi new)

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2. Traffic Signals in Phase 1A

• On the backbone
• 95 IDOT
• 44 County
• 6 Municipal
• 145 Total
• Others remain dedicated or dialup
• Normal project network expansion

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4. Initiate Highway Advisory Radio

• 3 sites to start
• I-94 focus
• (at interchanges)
• Synchronized
• Automated message generation
• Text-to-speech conversion
• HAR signs- 1620 AM

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4. Initiate Highway Advisory Radio
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5. Initial CAD interface
911

• Sheriff Computer Aided Dispatch system
• 911 cellular calls
• Filters applied

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5. Initial CAD interface
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6. Expanded Video Camera Use

• Incorporating 27 PTZs on backbone
• Adding 5 new PTZs
• Others remain dialup
• Normal project video expansion

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7. Initiate Dynamic Message Signs

• 3-Portable, side road mounted
• Use for some incidents
• Automated message generation

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8. Initial GCM link

• Gary-Chicago-Milwaukee Gateway
• Regional link
• Via IDOT fibers along Tollway
• IDOT Offices

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9. Advanced Transportation Management System

• ATMS central software brains
• Makes everything work together

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9. ATMS

• Integrated congestion management
• Operator interface
• GIS integration
• Failure management
• Maintenance management

• Signal internal paging (staff)
• Integrated incident management
• Web page broadcast
• Arterials Tollway

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9. ATMS

• Map-based Operations
• Monitor real-time traffic conditions from the map
• Light, medium, heavy or alarm heavy traffic
• Display traffic signal system and ITS devices
  with active status
• Dynamic layering
• Click on icon to control field devices

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9. ATMS

• Field Device Control
• Signal system interface
• CCTV control
• HAR
• DMS
• Monitor RWIS

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10. Event Management

• Incidents
• Planned lane closures
• Unplanned lane closures
• Special events
• Weather events

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11. Congestion Management

• Real-time
• Signal timing changes
• Real-time traveler information (DMS and HAR)
• Advanced congestion management
• Support for timing optimization
• Data collection and interface to Synchro capacity
  software
• Support capacity analysis

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13. Maintenance Management

• View and log signal system failures
• View and log ITS device failures
• Provide logging of maintenance activities
• Track open maintenance items
• Page maintenance personnel

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12. Traveler Information

• Provide for real-time web map display
• Include incidents and planned events
• Provide interface to the GCM gateway
• Traffic data
• Event details
• Eventually signal coordination

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ITS Technologies

• All housed in Traffic Management Center (TMC) in
  Libertyville
• Building addition
• One story, 4400 sq ft
• Houses traffic section

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TMC Facility
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TMC Staffing

• Phase 1A
• 2 TMC operators
• 530 am 800 pm coverage
• Hands on peak periods Monday thru Friday
• Actively monitor traffic conditions and status
• 630 - 900 am
• 300 - 630 pm
• IDOT Office Space

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ITS Technologies

• Caveats
• Phase 1A still under development-80 paid out
• Phase 1A coverage
• Not the whole county
• Not equivalent coverage areas
• Other Phases to follow

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Thanks to

• County Engineer
• Martin Buehler P.E.
• Consultant
• NET Joseph Brahm, P.E.
• IDOT
• ISTHA
• Federal Reps and FHWA

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Questions?

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Direct Fiber Communication

• Equipment used

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Direct Fiber Communication

• Equipment used

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The Name

• Lake County PASSAGE
• Program for Arterial Signal Synchronization and
  TrAvel GuidancE
• Implementation Phasing Plan (IPP) completed
• Phase 1A underway

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Lake County Board Strategic Plan

• Enhance the development and expansion of an
  efficient and effective transportation system
• .Also a Federal initiative

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Consequences of No Action

• Loss of opportunity to provide yearly time
  benefits to motorists through
• Improved signal system coordination
  12.3million/year
• Better real time traffic monitoring
  4.7million/year
• Improved event management
  million/year
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  17 million/year

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1. Fiber Optic Network

• Phase 1 (AB) Deployment
• 1 million investment in fiber infrastructure
• 1 million investment in electronics
• Mesh topology 4 redundant paths and spurs

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10. Event Management

• ATMS will support three methods of generating a
  response plan
• System-generated
• Select from a plan library
• User-generated

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TMC Facility
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Benefits Lake County Passage

• Time savings to motorists from
• Improved signal system coordination
• get more greens
• Better real-time traffic monitoring
• ... drivers have better information
• Improved event management
• someone takes corrective action