1. Executive Briefing Information Technology and Intelligent Transportation Systems 2003-2008 Strategic Plan Presented by: CUTR/ Palisades Group USA February 24, 2004

2. IT/ITS Accomplishments Agency-wide Strategic Business Planning in 2000 and 2003 People’s Transportation Plan Referendum, November 2002 Federal ITS Oversight Gartner Study IT/ITS Strategic Plan IT/ITS Strategic Plan

3. MDT is Leading the Nation MDT’s initiative to undertake an IT/ITS Strategic Plan puts the agency in the nation’s forefront in terms of a compliance strategy for the FTA Policy No other agency has so closely aligned its ITS deployments against its Business Vision, Mission and Goals

4. Why MDT’s IT/ITS Strategic Plan is Important Major step toward compliance with Federal Transit Administration’s Policy on Conformance with the National ITS Architecture April 8, 2005 deadline for regional ITS architectures April 8, 2005 deadline for regional ITS architectures Transit must comply or risk losing FTA operating and capital grant funding Transit must comply or risk losing FTA operating and capital grant funding

5. IT/ITS Plan Demonstrates Good Management Practice Demonstrates prudent management of People’s Transportation Plan resources

6. Provides Foundation for Business- Driven Technology Applications A business-driven foundation for information flows and technology deployments

7. How? By Creating a Strong Internal Architecture…

8. …That Will Support MDT’s Core Functions

9. How Will MDT Get There?

10. What It Will Take to Succeed Start with current projects and see how they fit into Strategic Initiatives; then prioritize them A Systems Engineering Approach is critical (includes alternatives analysis, stakeholder participation in project scoping, life-cycle costing, benefit/cost analysis, etc.)

11. What It Will Take to Survive Business units working together with other business units and with the IT Department to build an internal architecture that will support MDT’s Core Functions — one project at a time. Training in the use of information management, standards and systems engineering will help equip staff to make project specification and procurement align with Strategic Plan elements