Transportation Operations Goals and Accomplishments Institute of Transportation Engineers 2001 Spring Conference and Exhibit Dr. Christine Johnson D irector, ITS Joint Program Office Program Manager, FHWA Operations March 28, 2001

Congestion has reached a boiling point Congestion is the No 1 political priority - Rep Young …and people want more information to help them cope

In this past year…. Dimensions of the problem What is required for “peak operating performance” Legislative Options

Dimensioning the Problem: Congestion Vehicle travel up 72% Road Miles up 1%

Dimensioning the Problem: Congestion 46% of peak period travel is congested 4.3 billion hours wasted No longer a big city problem –Congestion in small areas grew 400%

Incidents Disasters Weather Work Zones Take Back The Road 4 Lanes of Highway Demand Management Operations

Dimensioning the Problem: Incident Management 60% of the Peak? 1:4 clearance to traffic back up Cost of wrong response? Benchmarks?

Dimensioning the Problem: Work Zones Top of American’s traffic frustration list! American’s top three traffic improvements are work zone related. 1 of every 5 state miles in California is under construction!

Its not the money for Maintenance It’s the time!

Dimensioning the Problem: Weather 50% of U.S population run 5% risk of hurricanes 69% of Americans in snow belt 74% of NHS in snow belt A day long weather shutdown - $15-$93 million

What is it going to take to achieve Peak Performance? 1. Raise the bar of individual activities 2. Integrate 3. Tools and data 4. Performance Measure 5. Communicate with the public 6. Spend the money

Peak Performance Raising the Bar Operations Self Assessment Signal Timing Video Incident Management Guidance Public Safety Initiative

d(i) d(i) d(i) ,000 d(i) 5,000-10,000 d(i) 10, ,000 d(i) 500, Million d(i) 1 Million- 5 Million d(i) 100, ,000 d(i) 5+ Million d(i) SMALL IMPACT BIG IMPACT d(i) = degree of impact 36 Peak Performance Raising the Bar Work Zone Hassle Index Divides delay by life of improvement Integrating weather information with traffic signal timing

Peak Performance Integration Architecture Rule The Long Range Plan for Operations Required in 4 years Brings right players to table 511 Public will demand seamless information

Peak Performance Tools Turbo Architecture IDAS Quick Zone NGSIM Decision Support Tools

98% 97% 93% 88% Date Percentage of On-Time Arrivals ATIS Driver Habitual Driver Trends in On-Time Arrival Reliability in Washington DC 29 Peak Performance Measures

511 – DOT a phone call away Quality Accuracy Capacity At least I called ahead and delayed the meeting Peak Performance Communicate with Customer Consider an award for the best traffic web site?

Peak Performance Spend the Money Baseline data States relatively flat 5-6% Cities have grown from 3% to nearly 7% Launched Survey Are we spending enough? Does operations compete well?

Legislative Options 1.Data – Minimum data collecting capability on NHS 2.Institutional Development 3.Policy - Provide for three distinct missions 4.Money

Transportation is the Circulation System of our Communities