HNTB ITS/Traffic Operations Minnesota Guidestar June 20, 2012
HNTB ITS/Traffic Operations Minnesota Guidestar
June 20, 2012
HNTB’s ITS/Traffic Operations Practice
Diverse capabilities
Nationwide resources
Cutting-edge experience
Diverse ITS/Traffic Operations Capabilities
• ITS and communication design
• Connected vehicles
• System integration and
technology support
• Signal systems
• Managed/HOT lanes
• Operations, including traffic
incident management
• Training/professional
capacity building
Diverse ITS/Traffic Operations Capabilities
• Specialty areas:
− Incident management
− Communications and networking
− Parking management
− Application development
Nationwide ITS/Traffic Operations Resources
• More than 125 ITS
professionals nationwide
• 40 in Great Lakes Region
• Ability to tap specialized
disciplines or capabilities
• Ability to leverage firmwide
resources outside of ITS
ITS/Operations Training
• Fiber Optics
• Communications
• ITS Design
• ITS Construction Inspection
• Traffic Incident
Management
• Emergency Transportation
Operations
• Planned Special Events
• Crisis Communications
Cutting-Edge Experience: Connected Vehicles
• MDOT
• FDOT
• GDOT
• City of Detroit
• New Jersey Turnpike Authority
• Miami-Dade Expressway Authority
USDOT Safety Pilot Model Deployment
Deployment Facts
• 2,800 vehicles
• Cars, trucks, transit
• Fully integrated vehicles
• Intersections, freeways
• V2I, V2V
Safety Applications
• Collision avoidance
• Curve over-speed warning
• Lane change assist
• SPaT signal controllers
• Transit safety devices – pedestrian detection systems
• In-vehicle work zone notification
• In-vehicle merge advisories based on lane closures
• Railroad grade crossing warning
Cutting-Edge Experience: Parking Management
• Metra
parking
management
• I-94 truck
parking
management
system
Truck Parking Information & Management System
• Issue: Overcrowded rest areas, safety concerns
• Objective: Improve corridor parking utilization
Truck Parking Information & Management System
System components
• Vehicle sensors
• CCTV cameras
• Parking status signs
• DMS
• Traveler website
• In-vehicle devices
• Smart phone app
Cutting-Edge Experience: ITS Communications
• St. Louis regional design
• City of Columbus regional design
• Metro Detroit regional design
• Honolulu design and integration
Honolulu Communications Design
• All wireless
• Terrain modeling
• Path testing
Honolulu System Integration
• Lab testing
• Field integration
• Operational support
• Field testing
Cutting-Edge Experience: Asset Management
• St. Louis regional ITS asset management
• MDOT statewide ITS asset management
MDOT Statewide ITS Asset Management
• SQL server database
• Fiber, conduit, handholes, devices
• Work orders and maintenance
• Linked to photos, as-builts, cabinet data
MDOT Statewide Asset Management
Cutting-Edge Experience: Managed/HOT Lanes
• SR 91 Express Lanes –
Orange County, CA
− User pricing to optimize
the number of vehicles
that can safely travel
the toll lanes at free-
flow speeds
− Finance the project to
accelerate construction
Cutting-Edge Experience: Managed/HOT Lanes
• I-15 Express Lanes Design & Operations, Salt Lake City, UT
Main Lanes
Managed Lanes
Direct Access Ramps
Access Road
BRT Station
Park- and-Ride
Cutting-Edge Experience: Zoo ICM “Crossing” Corridors
Cutting-Edge Experience: Zoo ICM Con Ops
Real-time
Traveler
Information
Traffic
Signal
Operations
Traffic
Incident
Management
Traffic
Operations
Authority
Cutting-Edge Experience: Zoo ICM
• Institutional
− Establish operations “authorities” (decision making, technical)
− Transfer of signal “ownership”
− Coordination/connection with Work Zone TMP
• Traffic Signal Operations and Traveler Information
− Responsive and/or adaptive signal control
− Arterial detection and monitoring
− Integration of Zoo ICM with Statewide Traffic Operations
Center (arterial-freeway operation co-location)
− Expanded information dissemination (DMS, 511, etc.)
• Traffic Incident Management
− Arterial incident response tools
− Expansion of WisDOT Freeway Service Team (incl. arterials)
Cutting-Edge Experience: HNTB TIM Quals
• Implementing national
SHRP2 L12/L32A
responder training
• Established FHWA
National TIM training
standardization
• Lead facilitator of FHWA
“Advanced TIM for Mid-
Level Managers”
Workshops (Minneapolis,
September 2011)
• Author of FHWA Freeway
Service Patrol Handbook
Cutting-Edge Experience: HNTB TIM Quals
• WisDOT Traffic Incident
Management Enhancement
(TIME) Program
− Exclusive management/support
contractor since 1995
− ITS America “Best-Of” Award
Winner
− Expanded from Milwaukee to
Statewide
− Needs-based, relationships
focused
• Member of National TIM
Coalition leadership, support in
NUG direction and development
• TIM experience in 28 states,
49 cities
Why HNTB?
Diverse capabilities
Nationwide resources
Cutting-edge experience