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The Rapid Incident Scene Clearance (RISC) Program is an effort to accomplish the goals set in Florida's Open Roads Policy, namely, to clear all incidents from the roadways within 90 minutes of the arrival of the first responding officer. The RISC Program has been activated multiple times, and the

This document outlines the best practices for ensuring that the clearance of a traffic incident is done safely and as quickly as possible. The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) and the National Highway Cooperative Research Program (NCHRP) have identified

Georgia DOT's Towing Recovery Incentive Program (TRIP) began in 2008 in order to reduce the amount of time it took to clear an accident involving a large commercial vehicle from the roadway. This website contains information about the program, including a chart showing their progress throughout t

Traffic Incident Management (TIM) programs address congestion and travel delay, public health and safety, energy savings, public safety resources, responder safety, and more. This report is a review of the benefits of TIM programs. TIM is very broad, and includes elements such as development of u

This document is a summary of a study done on a section of I-405, where ramp meters were implemented in 1999. The report includes visual aspects, such as charts and graphs, to lay out the data suggesting that the ramp meters aided in decreasing travel times in the morning, but not necessarily the

This webpage contains information about the use of surveillance and detection technologies, like cameras or sensors, to monitor traffic flow in support of ITS technologies. In addition, they can be used to monitor transportation facilities for security.

This webpage contains direct link

This report is a summary of the effect of ramp metering on traffic in 2 separate locations of Westbound SR 520, in terms of volumes and speeds. The data were collected 1 year apart in the same location, in order to be as accurate as possible. The results are outlined in this report, accompanied b

This document is a report on the effects of ramp metering on the general traffic and congestion of areas surrounding Seattle, Washington. Even the smallest of actions can have large effects on traffic congestion -- take rubbernecking, for example -- the same goes for benefits to traffic. Ramp Met

This webpage contains the monthly reports of the Southeast Michigan Transportation Operations Center (SEMTOC). Each recent report contains a page on Traveler Information, Control Room Activity, Freeway Courtesy Patrol, Traveler Assistance, Incident Management, Freeway Incident Hot Spots, and Blue

This report is a summary of the 2012 Fiscal Year of the West Michigan Transportation Operations Center. The report covers incident management, work zones, communications in the control room, and equipment maintenance.  

The Tracker is a tool that allows MoDOT to see if their customers are getting the services, resources, and products they need. The Tracker is published quarterly, with focuses on keeping customers safe, keeping roads and bridges in good condition, providing outstanding customer service, deliverin

Travel time, one of the most important freeway performance metrics, can be easily estimated using the data collected from fixed traffic sensors, avoiding the need to install additional travel time data collectors. This project is aimed at fully utilizing the data gathered by existing fixed sensor

ITS New York and the Transportation Safety Advancement Group (TSAG) will be hosting The Emergency Response Symposium on September 28 – 29, 2015 in Buffalo, NY.  We’ll connect regional responders with state and national leaders in transportation to identify ITS te

This paper examines how next generation wide-area cellular such as 4G will be able to support vehicular applications, and how transportation infrastructure may mesh with wireless networks.

Specifically, the report suggests that automotive electronics engineers will need to be cognizant

This report is an overview of global innovations in risk management and development of safe, dependable and secure systems. Cyber security is about meeting critical assurance requirements - maintaining transportation systems that ensure the preservation of human safety, the environment, critical

This paper foresees imaging technology rapidly advancing in applications that require simple object detection, such as vehicle collision avoidance and advanced traffic management systems. The paper speculates that future advances, such as improved object detection algorithms, machine learning and

ITS America's first wireless report examined how next generation 4G cellular (wide-area), and nomadic wireless such as Wi-Fi (local-area) and Dedicated Short Range Communications (vehicle-area) will evolve and possibly support a number of vehicle applications.

This report investigates h

The largest impediment is to M2M deployment in the transportation sector is largely life cycle cost, which is driven by stringent design and certification processes. This paper speculates that a "service-oriented" architecture, one that allows any M2M device to be securely accessible to any appli

TRB E-Circular 200: Transportation Asset Management from Plans to Practice: A Workshop for State Practitioners summarizes the presentations from a May 31, 2015 workshop held in conjunction with the 5th International Transportation Systems Performance Measurement and Data Conference, June 1–2, 201

This study provides the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) with a user analysis of the Iowa 511 Traveler Information System. The researchers assessed the Iowa 511 system using survey results and usage data. The system was evaluated by examining the trends in users, usage characteristics, and

Iowa 511 User Analysis--Appendices

Improving Freight Systems in Metropolitan Areas: From New York City to Across the Globe’

The National Operations Center of Excellence (NOCoE) is a new, comprehensive technical services center and website that was launched during the 2015 Transportation Research Board (TRB) annual meeting. The NOCoE will help transportation professionals utilize state-of-the-art, real-time proactive m

This report consists of a five-year business plan to further incorporate and emphasize systems operations and managent in state DOTs. The report also includes the workshop activities that took place in the production of the Plan.While the plan is focused principally within the AASHTO co

This webpage is an index of helpful links from Washington State DOT, with information covering various topics applicable to all transportation professionals--from Work Zone Safety to Truck Freight to Environmental Stewardship, and much more. The index is updated when quarters are completed.

This webpage contains various reports from multiple years on congestion in Washington State. These reports include the Corridor Capacity Report, the Semi-Annual Travel Trends Report, Mobility Updates, and Practical Design and Least Cost Planning offer solutions. The majority of the reports have b

This project is part of the ENTERPRISE Program. This research was done by contacting multiple State DOT's and inquiring about their best practices for travel times data collection, processing, and information reporting.

Further research was conducted on certain approaches to monitoring

The goal of this research was to evaluate the St. Louis Motor Assist program and determine current benefits of the program and the goals for the program in the future.

The results of this research support the idea that this program provides a tremendous amount of safety benefits to St.

The purpose of Safety Service Patrol (SSP) programs is to help combat the effects of nonrecurring congestion on highways. SSPs aid in the clearing of incidents from roadways, as well as assisting state police with traffic control at crash scenes. This document is a summary of the benefit-cost stu

This report is a summary of the Freeway Service Patrols (FSPs) in the U.S.. Information gathered was pertaining to organizations and resources, operating practices, vehicles and equipment, and types and levels of services offered. 40 states had at least one FSP, in varying locations within each&n

This document is a survey conducted about Work Zone Law Enforcement. The following questions were asked in the survey:

A copy of an official agreement between Maricopa County and the City of Peoria for the sharing of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Fiber Optic Cable Systems. The exact details of the agreement are laid out in the document, as well as the purpose of the document, the general terms and cond

August 2015 NOCoE newsletter

This document is an agreement between the Pennsylvania DOT and another party, to be used when PENNDOT wishes to share highway event data, including video, with other agencies and organizations. This agreement will be used in the hopes that the information shared will benefit the general public an

This is a visual document which demonstrates the signing standards for the Inital Perminent Bypass Route Signing, Branson Area Alternate Route Signing, and Future Perminent Bypass Route Signing: St. Louis Test.

This document contains examples of detour route signings from New Hampshire DOT. There are multiple examples in various locations of New Hampshire roadways.

This is an example of detouring route signing from New York State DOT, detailing the emergency detour routes for the Niagara Region, specifically using HWY 405 and Stanley Avenue.

This is the sign standard for "Move Over or Slow Down for Emergency Vehicles" from the Maryland State Highway Administration. The dimensions of the details of the sign are included.

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This is the Standard Practice from the North Carolina DOT for the "Move Over / Reduce Speed" Law. This document not only contains the written standards for North Carolina with regard to the necessary signing to meet the requirements of this law, but also contains the relevant section of the law f

CMM Dimensions Webinar Series 2: Organization and Staffing Presentations by Joan Sollenberger, Glenn McLaughlin, Brad Freeze and Steve Lockwood

This document is a summary of the AMBER Alert plan for the state of Washington. The document includes information on what constitutes an AMBER Alert, what information should be gathered and sent out, who should be notified and how often, who needs to go through training and how, and more informat

The Oregon Department of Transportation has released a report that explains a smartphone application designed to collect cyclists’ routes, users, and comfort levels by combining GPS route data with results from surveys of cyclists.

The Minnesota Department of Transportation has released a report that considers two types of normal condition regain time—average speed density under dry weather conditions for day time, and time-dependent average speed patterns for night time—using traffic flow data for a given snow event.

The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute has released a report that discusses how ambulance services are striving to improve their emergency response operations by using three phases of statistical process control to determine the current performance of emergency response.

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 812: Signal Timing Manual - Second Edition, covers fundamentals and advanced concepts related to signal timing. The report addresses ways to develop a signal timing program based on the operating environment, us

The Minnesota Department of Transportation has released a report that summarizes the main elements of its bicycle and pedestrian data collection program that is designed to collect bicycle and pedestrian traffic counts throughout Minnesota.

Common Cyber Language

This handbook presents and recommends policies, regulations, planning and operations processes, impact mitigation strategies, equipment and personnel resources, and technology applications used in the advance planning, management, and monitoring of travel for planned special events.

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This study developed methods for estimating the expected crash frequency of urban freeway segments with HOV or HOT lanes. The safety impacts of the type of separation between the managed lanes and general purpose lanes were examined.  

This white paper outlines the potential for the emerging connected transportation system to interface with smart/connected cities.  Its aim is to lay the foundation for defining steps that the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) Connected Vehicle Program should take to identify and ex

Crowdsourcing and Its Application to Transportation Data Collection and Management Volume 2414

The participation of a large and varied group of people in the planning process has long been encouraged to increase the effectiveness and acceptability of plans. However, in practice, partici

The term crowdsourcing is applied in common usage to several dissimilar processes. To establish a clear scope for this report, we have organized crowdsourced transportation data applications into four categories:

1. Third party Aggregated Crowdsourced Data 2. Social Media for Pub

AERIS Concept of Operations documents are intended to convey “transformational ideas” that will be modeled to show the potential environmental benefits that can be achieved through connected vehicle applications.

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis Report 271: Traffic Signal Operations Near Highway-Rail Grade Crossings presents a review of the current practices associated with the operation of traffic signals at intersections located near highway-rail grade crossings.&nbs

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 460: Sharing Operations Data Among Agencies document both the qualitative and quantitative business cases for sharing data among transportation-related agencies. The study also documents the institutional, le

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 454: Response to Extreme Weather Impacts on Transportation Systems examines eight recent cases of extreme weather in the United States from the perspectives of transportation operations, maintenance, design, construction, plann

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 451: Emergency Medical Services Response to Motor Vehicle Crashes in Rural Areas identifies potential factors that may help reduce the time needed to provide effective medical care to crash occupants on rural roads.  

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 452: State Department of Transportation Fleet Replacement Management Practices explores the current state of the practice regarding fleet replacement management and financing methods by state departments of transportation. The

The Washington State Department of Transportation has released the latest version of its quarterly report that contains updates on a range of agency activities, programs, and capital project delivery.

Performance Measurement Dimension: Challenges and Opportunities from a State DOT Perspective

This document is a flowchart of the chain of command for State Highway Administration for Maryland Department of Transportation. This “Organizational Structure” is current as of January 2013, and details the organizational flow stemming from the State Highway Administrator, through the Department

This document is a flowchart of the chain of command for the Grand Region Operations Section of the Maryland Department of Transportation. It details the organizational flow stemming from the Associate Region Engineer Operations, through the Region Construction Engineer, Staff Engineer, Region Ma

This document is a flowchart of the chain of command for the Metro Region Operations Section of the Maryland Department of Transportation. It details the organizational flow stemming from the Associate Region Engineer Operations, through the Maintenance Superintendent, Traffic Operations Center M

This document is a flowchart of the chain of command for the Operations Field Services Division of the Maryland Department of Transportation. It details the organizational flow stemming from the Operations Field Services Engineer, through Maintenance/Operations Services, Intelligent Transportatio

This document is a flowchart of the chain of command for Traffic Operations C016 of the Nevada Department of Transportation. It details the organizational flow orginating from the Chief Traffic Operations Engineer Administrator, through the Assistant Chief Traffic Ops Engineer Administrator, MSA

 I-95 Corridor Coalition Executive Director Search

Austroads has released a report that discusses traffic management practice under the Safe System philosophy and emphasizes the road system as an environment which assists road users to behave effectively and safely. This report is available for no fee after logging onto the site.

NOCoE Newsletter September 2015

This document shares good practices and methods that agencies have found worthwhile in conducting their process reviews. The goal is that this focused information will lead to more consistent and targeted improvements in agency work zone policies and procedures. This document includes tips for su

The recommendations contained in the Traffic Incident Management Gap Analysis Primer allow that they may be tailored towards the needs of the area in which the Traffic Incident Management program will be implemented.

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) has released its latest Safety Data Update. The update provides the latest information about implementation of the SHRP 2 safety database, which is the main product of the Safety focus area of the SHRP 2 Program. As of September 30, 2015,

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) has released its latest Safety Data Update. #10.

SHRP 2 Safety Data Update Number 10 Frequent visitors to and users of the InSight web portal might have noticed some changes in the last several months with the respect to the disp

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) has released its latest Safety Data Update. The update provides the latest information about implementation of the SHRP 2 safety database, which is the main product of the Safety focus area of the SHRP 2 Program.

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UDOT Executive Director John Njord assigned a Quality Improvement Team (QIT) to make recommendations that will result in UDOT providing “world class traffic signal maintenance and operations.” The QIT evaluated existing operations, national best practices, and NCHRP recommendations and found tha

A form and instructions used by field personnel to conduct routine maintenance on traffic signals. This practice was developed as a result of a need identified in the QIT process.

A PowerPoint presentation that describes our development of a performance metric to track the intensity of winter storms and the effectiveness of snow removal efforts in real-time.

A PowerPoint presentation that describes our use of a portable RWIS station to monitor rainfall in the watershed above a burn scar in a canyon setting with steep slopes. The system provided warning for every subsequent debris flow event that closed the road.

UDOT's Signal Performance Metrics Dashboard

UDOT's Data Portal, UGATE

UPlan Map Center

UDOT's data portal, UPLAN - fiber optic network map

NACTO/NOCoE Joint Webinar: Traffic Incident Management--Lessons Learned in Seattle

On October 21st, 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m., NACTO and NOCoE will hold a joint webinar on lessons learned regarding the City of Seattle's res

Youtube video showcasing UDOT Green Light Project.

Youtube video showcasing UDOT's 5400 Flex Lane Project.

Youtube video showcasing UDOT Express Lane project.

Youtube video showcasing UDOT's CFI project.

The Virginia Department of Transportation Safety Service Patrol (SSP) program began in the late 1960s, initially with district maintenance personnel providing assistance to disabled motorists in Northern Virginia during rush hours.

Over the last 50 years, the Safety Service Patrol (SSP)

Virginia DOT: Operations Division Instructional and Informational Memoranda

Michigan's Traffic Incident Management Effort (Mi-TIME) is a partnership between agencies, including MDOT, state and local law enforcement, fire, EMS, and towing services, to work together to safely and efficiently clear traffic incidents from Michigan's highways.  

The measures in this report support and are organized around the four major goal areas of the State Long-Range Transportation Plan - Stewardship, Safety and Security, System Improvement and Efficient and Effective Operations. This initial report moves beyond the MDOT pavement and bridge condition

The System Condition Report provides a wealth of information for transportation and/or data enthusiasts and others with the dedication to "click" through its many data-rich charts and tables. However, it may not be a readily accessible format for the more casual reader interested in a "bigger pic

North Carolina DOT Traffic Signal Design Manual

National TIM Responder Training Program Quarterly Update October 8, 2015

Bridge Construction Records and Procedures Manual, Volume I (9/2014) Bridge Construction Records and Procedures Manual, Volume II (9/2014Local Assistance Bridge Deck Construction Manual Construction Manual Construction Quality Assurance Program Manual Construction Site Best Management Practi

Highway Design Manual Plans Preparation Manual Project Development Procedures Manual (PDPM) Project Development Workflow Tasks (PDWT) Standard Plans and Specifications

Element Inspection Plans Preparation Manual Service Directory Structural Detailing Standards

Bridge Design Aids Bridge Design Details Bridge Design Practice Bridge Design Specifications Bridge Memo To Designers Bridge Standard Detail Sheets (XS Sheets) Reference Sheets Seismic Design Criteria Structural Detailing Standards Service Directory Element Inspection Bridge Strudl Man