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2007 Mid-Atlantic All Hazards Forum, Baltimore, MD - November 2007
Participating Agencies: Houston Metropolitan Transit Authority
The Mid-Atlantic All Hazards Forum (AHF) is a public-private partnership of the Mid-Atlantic States and private corporations. It is sponsored by the All Hazards Consortium (AHC), a new 501c3 organization formed by the Mid-Atlantic States. This grass roots, first-of-its-kind initiative is a new regional model designed to improve regional preparedness in the broad areas of homeland security and emergency management by facilitating dialogue among state government leadership and increasing interaction between all of AHF's stakeholders. Mr. Russell Pfeifle attended the event to glean valuable knowledge about emergency preparedness. The information that Mr. Pfeifle gained from the forum was shared with Houston’s Metropolitan Transit Authority (METRO) Transportation Management staff.
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Georgia ITE Summer Seminar, St. Simons, Georgia - June 2007
Participating Agencies: Houston TranStar; ITE Southern District, Georgia Section
Georgia wanted to examine new approaches for how to fully take advantage of its ITS capacity. TranStar had successfully implemented many advance technologies, most of which had been accomplished through cross-jurisdictional cooperation and coordination. TranStar’s Executive Director helped energize the discussion in Georgia with information on one of the nation’s best practices in TMCs.
One of the featured items for the technical program was jurisdictional cooperation and coordination. Houston TranStar served as a great model in that it had conquered many of the jurisdictional cooperation/coordination ITS issues faced by Georgia at the time. The presentation highlighted the lessons learned by the Houston area in the development of it’s ITS program.
This peer event was the basis for a T3 Webinar. View the webinar's archive
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Joint TMC Scanning Tour - Austin, TX, San Antonio, TX, Miami, FL, Gaithersburg, MD, Las Vegas, NV - September 2006
Participating Agencies: The following DOTs: Hawaii; City of Honolulu; Florida; Texas; Nevada; Maryland
The Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) had requested a Scanning Tour to visit five Joint Traffic Management Centers (JTMC). HDOT had made many advances towards developing a JTMC since its last scanning tour. There was a commitment by the state of Hawaii, as well as the city and county of Honolulu to develop a JTMC. At the time of the event, HDOT was in the environmental phase of its project. It was also making partnership agreements with various local agencies such as police, fire, and emergency medical services. Most of the members of HDOT’s JTMC Development Committee had never observed a TMC in operation. Therefore, they proposed to visit several TMCs to learn about the potential strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of operating TMCs.
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TMC Site Visits to Three Locations- Palm Beach, FL, New York City, NY, and Baton Rouge, LA - March 2006
Participating Agencies: Florida DOT; New York City DOT; Louisiana DOT; Texas DOT
At the time of this peer-to-peer event, the Dallas District of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) was constructing a new traffic management center (TMC), to be called DalTrans. The center was scheduled to be completed in late 2006. The Freeway Management Department would not be provided with additional employees to staff the DalTrans center, and was about to research contractual management and operations opportunities. This trip was requested so that Freeway Management Engineers could visit a similar traffic management center to theirs, where management and operations are handled by an agency other than the state’s department of transportation. TxDOT conducted three separate site visits as part of this Peer to Peer exchange.
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Evacuation Procedures Presentation, Minneapolis, MN - March 2006
Participating Agencies: Texas DOT; Minnesota DOT
At the time of this peer-to-peer event, the Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT) was in the first phase of developing a Metro Evacuation Traffic Management Plan. At the same time, Mn/DOT had developed a plan to turn its Regional Transportation Management Center (RTMC) into an Emergency Operations Center during an emergency or disaster event.
The meeting and informational exchange covered several presentation topics, including a session on emergency evacuations and security. The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has experience in mass evacuations, as evident in the case of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The TxDOT Emergency Management Coordinator gave a presentation on the use of ITS technology before, during, and after a mass evacuation event.
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Contra Flow Evacuation Operations, Orlando, FL - February 2006
Participating Agencies: Alabama DOT; Georgia State Patrol; Louisiana State Police; Mississippi DOT; North Carolina DOT; North Carolina State Highway Patrol; South Carolina Department of Public Safety; Texas DOT; Virginia State Police; Florida DOT
The purpose of this workshop was to bring states together to discuss lessons learned and best practices used during contra-flow evacuation operations. The following states presented information on their Contra-Flow Plans: Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia. The majority of these states had implemented their Contra-Flow Plans in recent years. A core team worked together to gather and summarize the information, and present the initial outcomes to the group on the second day of the workshop. This allowed for all participants to learn from the other states’ Plan deployments.
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