PAUSE Review ITS JPO Knowledge Resource Development Activities 1-3 May 2007

PAUSE Review

ITS JPO Knowledge Resource Development Activities

1-3 May 2007

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Your Hosts

• Jane Lappin, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, U.S. DOT

• Rob Maccubbin, Noblis

• Brian Philips, Noblis

• Barbara Staples, Noblis

• Steve Gordon, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

• Jeff Trombly, SAIC

• Ging Ging Liu Fernandez, Volpe Center

• Matthew Rohrbach, Volpe Center

• Margaret Zirker, Volpe Center

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PAUSE Members Attendance – Round 1Spring 2007Meeting 1 – May 1st Meeting 2 – May 2nd Meeting 3 – May 3rd

• Carol Zimmerman - Battelle• Amy Polk – Cairo Corporation• Matt Burt - Battelle

• Kevin McGinnis – National Association of State EMS Officials

• Bernie Wagenblast – Shadow Traffic/Metro Networks

• Steve Austin – Emergency Responder Safety Institute

• Kenneth Voorhies – Cambridge Systematics

• Jamie Kopf - Washington State Transportation Center, UW

• Margaret Petrella – US DOT Volpe

• Marianna Rizzo - FHWA

• Randy Mullett - Conway Companies

• Marty Lege’ - North Texas Tollway Authority

• Adam Paul - HNTB• Michael Harris - Parsons Brinckerhoff

• Joe Crabtree – University of Kentucky

• William Anderson – ITS America

• David Ridgley – ITS America

• John Toone – King County Metro

• Tammy Southwick – UDOT

• Alan Hansen - FHWA• Doug Ito - San Joaquin Council of Governments• William Ridder - San Joaquin Council of Governments• Thomas Kane - Des Moines Area MPO• Steve Fern – SMART• Kelly Damron - North Carolina DOT• John Hibbard - PBS&J• Tom Stout - FHWA• Phil Shapiro – BMISG• Robert Ferlis – FHWA• Pete Costello – PBS&J• Phil Tarnoff – U of MD• Ron Herrington - Lexington-Fayette

County• Stephen Clinger – FHWA• Jim Barbaresso – HNTB• Galen McGill – ORDOT• Mac Lister – FHWA

About the Web Meeting Software

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Agenda

1:05 pm Welcome and Introductions, Background

1:20 pm Review Recent Knowledge Resource (KR) Improvements

1:45 pm ITS Costs Database: Costs for ITS Core Elements

2:15 pm Five Ongoing and Potential KR Development Activities

2:35 pm Developing an “ITS Decision Support Tool” Web Interface

2:55 pm Wrap-up, Final Thoughts, and Concluding Survey

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Five ITS JPO Knowledge Resources

• ITS Benefits Database

• ITS Costs Database

• ITS Deployment Statistics Database

• ITS Lessons Learned Knowledge Resource

• Applications Overview

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PAUSE = Target Audience Representatives

• Local DOTs• Regions/MPOs• State DOTs• Transit• Public Safety• Public Works• Commercial Vehicle

Safety• Private Commercial

Vehicle Operators

• Freight Community• Bridge, Tunnel, and Toll

Authorities • Research• Federal Government• Legislative• Media• Traveling Public• ITS Vendors• Transportation Consultants

17 Groups Identified:

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Past PAUSE Activities

• Prototype Review for Lessons Learned Knowledge Resource (March and August 2005)

• State of the Practice Knowledge Resource Concept Development (October/November 2005)

• Review of Printed Publication Concepts (November 2005)

• Review of Lesson Learned “Video” Proof of Concept (March 2006)

• Prototyping and Testing of RSS and E-mail Subscription Services (October 2006)

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Today’s Exercise: Prioritizing Development Activities

• As we discuss a variety of topics please refer to your read-ahead material and make note of what rating you would give to the importance of carrying out the activity.

0 – Not Needed

1 – Nice to have

2 – Important

3 – Critical

• At the conclusion of the call, we’ll ask you to rank the 8 activities discussed in order of importance.

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Proposed Knowledge Resource Activities

Ongoing• RSS/E-mail • Adding/Updating Content to

KRs• State of the Practice KR• Printed Publications – 2008

“Update” Report• *ITS Decision Support Tool

Interface

Under Consideration• Sample Documents KR• Expand training on use of KRs• *Costs for ITS Core Elements

* Focus Topics, to be reviewed in more detail than the other 6 activities.

Note: Two additional topics listed in read-ahead will not be discussed today – Summary Benefits,

Costs, and Lessons, and a Congestion Pricing Leaflet

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Recent and Upcoming KR Improvements

• Four Leaflets Released

• Improved Lesson Web Page Layout

• Systems Engineering Lessons Categorization

• Benefit and System Cost “re-titling”

• State of the Practice Knowledge Resource

• Your Comments?

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Four Leaflets Released January 2007

• Discuss the benefits, costs, lessons, and deployment of ITS applications for:– Traffic Incident Management– Traveler Information– Work Zones– Traffic Signal Control

Added New Item “Systems Engineering” to Left Navigation Bar

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Systems Engineering

Search Results for “Concepts of Operations” (18 unique lessons found)

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Click on Concept of Operations

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Re-titling Benefits and System Costs Summaries

• Benefit Example– Current: Evaluation of the Motoring Public's Acceptance of a Real-Time

Travel Time Prediction System in a Freeway Construction Work Zone – Proposed: Ninety-seven percent of the motoring public found predicted

travel time information useful when posted at an I-75 work zone near Dayton, Ohio.

• System Cost Example– Current: Phoenix Metropolitan Model Deployment Initiative Evaluation

Report (Final Draft), Section 4: Advanced Traveler Information Systems, Subsection 4.2 Trailmaster Web Site and Roadway Closure and Restriction System Web Page

– Proposed: Costs to upgrade and redesign the Phoenix Metropolitan Model Deployment Initiative traveler information Web site was $135,782.

Arterial Management Systems Benefits

Adaptive Signal Control

Adaptive signal control systems reduce intersection delay up to 18% in

Los Angeles.

Integrated adaptive signal control, highway ramp metering, and alternative route information in Glasgow, Scotland, help balance heavy traffic loads and improve commute times.

Bicycle & Pedestrian

Automated pedestrian detection systems deployed in three U.S. cities reduce dangerous crossings at crosswalks by 81%.

Traffic Control

Example of Re-titled Benefits DB Entries

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New Knowledge Resource: State of the Practice Database--Genesis

• Feedback From PAUSE sparked effort to create new knowledge resource, aimed primarily at state and local agencies– Questions pointed to a new category of information needs, the

State of the Practice• Requirements are focused on “how” type questions, e.g.,

How are other agencies…– Training staff?– Funding O&M?– Using ITS in operations?– Presenting ITS projects to the public?

• Conclusion: there is an unmet need for information on the State of the Practice

Read-ahead pg. 6

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New Knowledge Resource: State of the Practice Database--Status

• State of the practice data will be tied to the nine Lessons Learned categories

• With support of PAUSE, nine sample state of the practice questions were developed and included in the 2006 survey– Results are included in read-ahead

• 2007 survey will cover state of the practice extensively– Deployment statistics will be integrated as part of the new

knowledge resource

• PAUSE members may help with 2007 survey by reviewing surveys and providing feedback

• Any volunteers?

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Discussion

• Four Leaflets Released

• Improved Lesson Web Page Layout

• Systems Engineering Lessons Categorization

• Benefit and System Cost “re-titling”

• State of the Practice Knowledge Resource

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Agenda



- 1:35 pm RSS, E-mail Service Launch





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Interface


* Focus Topics

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RSS and E-mail Subscription Update?

• Officially launched RSS and the E-mail Subscription Services at TRB in January 2007.

• Allows users to keep current on many Web sites by checking “headlines” in one location– Delivered automatically to their computer via RSS or Email

• RSS becoming more readily available

Read-ahead pg. 1

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The ITS Subscription Services Addresses

• Really Simple Syndication (RSS)- Subscribing to channels

http://www.itsbenefits.its.dot.gov/rss

• E-mail Subscription Service- Signing up for the email subscription service http://itsdeployment.ornl.gov/ess

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http://itsdeployment.ornl.gov/ess

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How is it going?

• Our customers successfully using the ITS Information Subscription Services:• RSS and E-mail Subscription Service subscribers have grown from

35 Beta testers to about 150 RSS users and 166 E-mail Subscription Service subscribers

• New users try out the E-mail Subscription Service and RSS every week

• Very few technical support calls received

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How is it going?

• What are your comments about RSS and the E-mail services now?

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Interface


* Focus Topics

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Overview

• Brief overview of the ITS unit costs data

• Explanation why to restructure unit costs

• Impacts of the change

• Sample ITS core elements

• Poll the PAUSE

Read-ahead pg. 3

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Background

• ITS Unit Costs Database brought online September 1999• The unit costs data are structured based on the cost elements in the

ITS National Architecture Cost Analysis and ITS Deployment Analysis System (IDAS) equipment list. IDAS is an ITS planning and cost/benefit tool. Costs updates shared with the IDAS team.

• Over time the costs analysis team added new cost elements to the unit costs database; unfortunately, these elements are not incorporated into IDAS.

• Updated semi-annually up to September 2004; annually thereafter– Adjusted costs

– Unadjusted costs

• Let’s take a quick tour… www.itscosts.its.dot.gov

http://www.itscosts.its.dot.gov/

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Why restructure unit costs data?

• Difficulty in obtaining costs that map to many of the unit cost elements– Elements based on the 1995 National ITS Architecture – dated

1994/1995– Many elements more representative of high-level, less tangible

architecture components (e.g., systems integration – IDAS # IS017, Labor for Probe Information Collection – IDAS # TM036)

– Available cost data from state and local DOTs in various formats, representative of specific planned or actual deployments

• A smaller more representative set of ITS “core” elements will be more manageable and allow the ITS JPO to provide fresher (more current) cost data.

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What are some of the impacts of this change?

• IDAS• Challenge of getting the correct set of ITS core elements that

can be maintained over time

• If the restructuring happens– the current unit costs data will still be available from the costs

Web site as a downloadable file– there will be no impact on the new CVISN cost data added

September 2006

• SurveyMonkey questions http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=581053728910

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=581053728910



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Sample ITS Core Elements

• Continue to provide same type of data as now (i.e., capital range, O&M range, lifetime, description) and same formats (i.e., online, Excel, and Acrobat)

• Continue with the same or different structure?

“Subsystems” -Telecommunications

- Roadside Detection - Pedestrian Systems - Enforcement Systems - Information Systems - …

“Applications” -Telecommunications - Arterial Systems - Freeway Systems - Pedestrian Systems - Enforcement Systems - Information Systems - …

- or -

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ITS Unit Costs Elements Sample ITS Core Elements

• Roadside Detection– Inductive Loop Surveillance on

Corridor/at Intersection– Machine Vision Sensor on

Corridor/at Intersection– Passive Acoustic Sensor on

Corridor/at Intersection– CCTV Video Camera– CCTV Video Camera Tower– Pedestrian Detection

Microwave/Infrared– Traffic Camera for Red Light

Enforcement– …

• Roadside Detection– Inductive Loops– Machine Vision Station– Remote Traffic Microwave

Sensor Station– Passive Acoustic Sensor

Station??– Infrared Sensor Station??– CCTV Video Camera Site– Portable Traffic Management

System

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ITS Unit Costs Elements Sample ITS Core Elements

• Transportation Management Center– Basic Facilities– Hardware for Signal Control– Software, Integration for Signal

Control– Labor for Signal Control– Hardware, Software for Traffic

Surveillance– Integration for Traffic Surveillance– …

• Transportation Management Center– Equipment/Hardware

• Servers

• Workstations/laptops

• Video walls

– Software (COTS) products• Signal Control

• Traffic Surveillance

• Incident Detection & Response

• Freeway Control

– Labor Categories• Manager

• Engineer

• Operator

• Maintenance Technician

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PAUSE Poll Questions

• SurveyMonkey questions http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=581053728910


Five Ongoing and Potential KR Development Activities

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Interface


* Focus Topics

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Adding Content to Existing Knowledge Resources

• ITS Benefits Database– Additional evaluation summaries

• ITS Costs Database– Additional System Cost examples,

updated Unit Cost data

• ITS Deployment Statistics Database/Surveys– New Surveys, updated data

• ITS Lessons Learned Knowledge Resource– Additional lessons

• Applications Overview– New categories, links to resources

Read-ahead pg. 4

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New Knowledge Resource: State of the Practice Database--Status

• State of the practice data will be tied to the nine Lessons Learned categories

• With support of PAUSE, nine sample state of the practice questions were developed and included in the 2006 survey– Results are included in read-ahead

• 2007 survey will cover state of the practice extensively– Deployment statistics will be integrated as part of the new

knowledge resource

• PAUSE members may help with 2007 survey by reviewing surveys and providing feedback

• Any volunteers?

Read-ahead pg. 6

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ITS Benefits, Costs, Deployment and Lessons Learned: 2008 Update

• Comprehensive report, covering breadth of ITS applications

• First edition of this periodic report to include Deployment Statistics information

• Features:– ITS Applications

• Summary Data

• Examples/Anecdotes

• Deployment Trends

– Lessons Learned• Synthesis Lessons

Read-ahead pg. 11

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Discussion

• Adding/Updating Content to KRs

• State of the Practice KR

• Printed Publications – 2008 “Update” Report

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Interface

Under Consideration• Sample Documents KR• Expand training on use of

KRs• *Costs for ITS Core Elements

* Focus Topics

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Sample Documents Knowledge Resource

• Develop a Web-based inventory of useful and relevant forms and documents to support ITS-related actions at the deploying organization levels in areas such as:– Procurement– Legal Issues– Planning– Technical and Institutional Integration

• Examples include: a sample section of a Concept of Operations for a freeway management system, a sample RFP for an AVL system for a transit operating agency, sample language regarding Intellectual Property Rights, etc.

Read-ahead pg. 15

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Expand Training on Use of Knowledge Resources

• Develop and give training courses based on ITS Program Assessment activities and knowledge resources

• Build on the highly successful T3 course on decision-makers resources to offer this course in additional venues

• Annual introductory training webcast– Feature webcast at other times to introduce new

features/capabilities, as appropriate

• Training can be either in-person, entirely online, or an instructor-led webcast

• Expand Conference Venues– e.g., ITE Annual Meeting, AMPO Annual Conference, ITSA State

Chapter meetings

Read-ahead pg. 16

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Discussion

• Sample Documents Knowledge Resource– Can you think of documents you would be looking for?

• Training– Webinars vs. Conferences?– Which Conferences?– Other Ideas?

Developing an Improved “ITS Decision Support Tool” Web Interface

Steve Gordon, ORNL

Jeff Trombly, SAIC

Oak Ridge National Laboratories

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Interface


* Focus Topics

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Background – ITS Decision Support Tool

• “Technology Application Oriented” vs. “Problem Oriented” interface to Knowledge Resources– Technology Application Oriented – based on ITS Taxonomy (e.g.,

Technology Applications Website)– Problem Oriented – based on user objectives or problems (e.g.,

congestion, safety, etc..)

• ITS Decision Support Tool– Problem Oriented interface

Read-ahead pg. 2

Dft Toolkit – Tool Directory

Proposed US Toolkit – Protype Interface

Proposed US Toolkit – Sample Output

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Proposed US Toolkit – Discussion Questions

• What do you think about using the “Goal Oriented” or “Problem Oriented” approach for accessing information?

• What do you think about the outputs – what should be included?

Prioritization of ITS KR Development Activities

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Next Meeting

• September/October Fall 2007

• Prototyping ITS Decision Support Tool Interface for the Applications Overview Web site

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Questions?

• Questions on the topics we’ve discussed today, before we ask you to rate and rank them?

Ongoing• RSS/E-mail • Adding/Updating Content to KRs• State of the Practice KR• Printed Publications – 2008

“Update” Report• ITS Decision Support Tool

Interface

Under Consideration• Sample Documents KR• Expand training on use of KRs• Costs for ITS Core Elements

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Activity Prioritization

1. Please follow this link to a survey which will ask you rate and rank the activities discussed today: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=93973681196

Ongoing• RSS/E-mail • Adding/Updating Content to KRs• State of the Practice KR• Printed Publications – 2008

“Update” Report• ITS Decision Support Tool

Interface

Under Consideration• Sample Documents KR• Expand training on use of KRs• Costs for ITS Core Elements

2. Please complete the

RSS and E-mail Subscription Ser

vice Survey






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Discussion

• Any comments on the proposed activities?– Relative merit– Anyone want to explain their vote