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ITS Heartland - April 2007
Participating Agencies: South Dakota DOT; ITS Heartland Chapter
The ITS Heartland meeting included a roundtable meeting where engineers from the member states discussed ITS initiatives in their respective states. Member state DOTs included: Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, and Oklahoma. This peer visit also allowed a representative from South Dakota DOT to participate in the exchange. Discussions included: the basis for regional institutional cooperation in regional ATIS, Corridor Management, and Homeland Security.
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Operation Green Light and Dallas Signal Phasing Information Exchange - April 2007
Participating Agencies: City of Little Rock, AR; Missouri DOT; Mid-America Regional Council (Kansas City MPO)
A peer expert from the City of Little Rock traveled to Kansas City to provide a peer exchange on the topic of traffic signal phasing currently in use in the Little Rock area, The system is known as the Dallas Phasing system.
The Mid-America Regional Council is in charge of a program (Operation Green Light) which involves approximately 600 traffic signals within 22 cities and 2 Department of Transportations. The project is funded by CMAQ and STP funds. The project is estimated to reduce travel time delay and stops across the Kansas City metro region by as much as 17%. The Mid-America Regional Council was interested in learning more about how Little Rock has implemented its signal phasing project. The Dallas Phasing has proven to improve progression along protected-plus-permitted traffic signals. This methodology had not yet been implemented in the Kansas City metro region. The City of Little Rock has deployed this methodology with comfortable benefits.
This peer event was the basis for a T3 Webinar. View the webinar's archive
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2006 ITS Planning Forum - October 2006
Participating Agencies: Ohio DOT; Missouri DOT; Kentucky Transportation Cabinet; Smartways Wisconsin/ITS America
Three speakers from Ohio, Missouri, and Kentucky presented at the 2006 ITS Planning Forum as part of the Smartways (Wisconsin Chapter of ITS America) conference. The ITS Forum is an annual event that assembles ITS experts from around the country, as well as local experts. The theme of the 2006 forum was "How Can ITS Help Me?" The emphasis was on both urban and local ITS practices. The speakers gave presentations on CVO/freight, ITS and Homeland Security, and co-located centers and communications (i.e. interagency agreements, funding and staffing).
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Annual Meeting for ITS America’s Heartland Chapter, Des Moines, IA - March 2006
Participating Agencies: Ohio DOT; ITS Heartland (Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma DOTs)
One objective of the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Heartland Chapter of ITS America is to facilitate information-sharing for ITS projects and activities. The chapter also showcases ITS applications in five Heartland states: Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma. At the time of the peer-to-peer event, all five state departments of transportation (DOTs), major universities in each state, and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) had been involved in the development of the Heartland Chapter. Potential benefits of membership in the ITS Heartland Chapter include information exchange, educational opportunities, project coordination, creation of public-private partnerships, access to future customers, and research-sharing. The Chapter holds annual meetings to allow members to discuss ITS issues, share ideas, learn about activities in other states, and have vendors showcase new products. A representative from the Ohio DOT participated in a panel session with five other state DOT engineers.
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Northwest Transportation Conference, Corvallis, OR - February 2006
Participating Agencies: Minnesota DOT; Missouri DOT; Iowa State University; ITS Oregon
The representative from Iowa State University participated in panel discussions at Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Oregon, a statewide conference on ITS issues. He discussed the use of cellular phone probe data for highway performance measures in Missouri, winter maintenance performance measures, the traffic management center pooled fund study, and the Interstate 394 High Occupancy Toll Lanes (HOT Lanes) project in Minneapolis. The conference included three sessions dealing with performance measures, congestion mitigation and management, and ITS operations and maintenance.
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