Ohio Department of Transportation John R. Kasich, Governor Jerry Wray, Director Ohio Planning Conference Organizing for Reliability – A State Perspective.

Ohio Department of TransportationJohn R. Kasich, Governor Jerry Wray, Director

Ohio Planning Conference

Organizing for Reliability – A State Perspective – Session

2D

July 15, 2014

Dave Holstein, AdministratorODOT Office of Traffic Operations

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TSM&O Strategies

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What TSM&O Do We Do Now?

TSMO Strategies:Work Zone Management

Incident Management

Special Event Management

Road Weather Management

Service Patrols

Traveller Info

Signal Coordination

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TSM&O Strategies:

Regional Operations

Transit Priority

Ramp Management

Managed Lanes

Connected Vehicles

OTHERS??? – This will be a key question in a minute.

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What TSM&O Do We Do Now?

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TSM&O Funding

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How is TSM&O Funded?

Well….. In Central Office we request $$ for projects that we think needs to be done.

In Districts – there are no TSM&O funds. Everything just part of other budget line items.

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TSM&O Collaborations

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Who Do We Work With on TSM&O??

Well……Planning – Safety Program quite a bit

Construction – Spec committee; APL

Engineering – Review some plans; quite a bit on standards, signals and work zones.

Districts – Especially w/Highway Management.

Locals/MPO’s – As necessary but not that often.

Emergency Responders – Via OEMA/TMC

Summary – Fair amount of collaboration but it just sort of evolved over time.

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Organizational Structure

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Organizational Structure

Central Office Division of Operations:Office of Traffic Operations;

Office of Maintenance Administration;

Office of Aviation

Districts Organized Around:Engineering (Planning/Design);

Construction;

Maintenance

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TSM&O Plan

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Where Do We Want To Be In 5 Years??

This is PRECISELY the point:ITS, signals, field devices, software, information dissemination, maintenance needs, number of programs, data applications, EVERYTHING (except staff size) has grown at a break neck pace.

Constant “fire drill” to just do what you have to do. Working in “Real-Time” with not much time left to think about the long term future.

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Core functions - just evolved over time;

Collaborations - similarly evolved often times based on personal relationships;

Funding - requested “in real-time” as we need it.

No formal long term plan - wait a minute………….

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Where Do We Want To Be In 5 Years??

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WE NEED A PLAN!!!!

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Where Do We Want To Be In 5 Years??

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WE NEED A PLAN!!!!

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Where Do We Want To Be In 5 Years??

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The PlanWon SHRP2 “Organizing for Reliability” Grant

Completed Facilitated Self Assessment

Strengths & Improvement Opp’s Identified

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With our improvement opportunities identified ODOT is required to create a plan to make them strengths.

General Improvement Areas Are:1. Developing a Plan;

2. Making the business case for Operations;

3. Systems and Technology;

4. Organization & Staffing.

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The Plan

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Rather than just address some weaknesses of what we are currently doing we decided to do a LOT more.

We are going to look at everything….

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The Plan

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Internal / external stake holder group being formed to BENCHMARK high performing practitioners of Operations.

C.O., Districts, County Engineers, Cities, MPO’s, etc.

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The Plan

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Potential core functions will be identified and existing ones will be vetted.

Organization, staffing, products and functions will be evaluated against the current best in the country.

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The Plan

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Every facet of ODOT’s Operations (C.O. and Districts) will be compared and contrasted to the best practitioners in the Country.

The Stakeholder group will make recommendations to ODOT Executive Management that are unconstrained by our current limitations & practices (budget, collaborations, staffing, core functions, T.O.’s, EVERYTHING)

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The End Game

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Those recommendations accepted by ODOT Executive Management will be memorialized in Ohio’s first long range TSM&O Plan.

Goal is to be the premier operations program in the country.

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The End Game

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We will learn from the best and add it to our own strengths in order to become the new standard of excellence in Operations.

Very exciting – once in a lifetime/career opportunity.

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The End Game

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Questions?

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