In conducting a "best practices and technologies" study for the deployment of ITS technologies in Ohio, the Ohio DOT determined that the study should focus on the macro corridor system in the state. This paper focuses on a summary report of a major research report submitted to the Ohio DOT in mid-2001 that explored the causes of delay on these macro corridor highways and suggested those management practices and ITS technologies that would be most effective for Ohio's ITS program. In terms of congestion on highways in the three largest metropolitan areas in Ohio, the percentage of congestion caused by incidents was approximately 55 percent in the most recent Texas Transportation Institute rating. The ITS program recommended for further deployment to the Ohio DOT included (1) non-technical freeway operations improvements, (2) synergistic collection and analysis of traffic data, (3) multi-agency traffic management with DOTs at the state and local level, police and fire, (4) incident detection, (5) video surveillance, (6) traffic control during incidents, and (7) traveler information dissemination. A detailed assessment of various technologies in each of these seven functional areas was made with an array of state-of-the-practice technologies, but no one specific technology was recommended for statewide application. In this way the ITS partnerships that are formed by the various ODOT districts would have information to guide them in their choices of technologies. In terms of management practices, it was noted that Ohio's highway and multimodal transportation program is subject to the oversight and policy guidance of a Transportation Review and Advisory Committee (TRAC). It was recommended that ITS projects be eliminated from the TRAC review process, or that ODOT develop criteria for ranking and selecting ITS projects based on their value in improving operations on Ohio's macro highway system.
Summary of ITS Best Management Practices and Technologies for the State of Ohio
Seventh International Conference on Applications of Advanced Technologies in Transportation (AATT) ; 2002 ; Boston Marriot, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
2002-07-31
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
Best ITS Management Practices and Technologies for Ohio
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