This document presents a proposed Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Master Plan for the City of College Station. It discusses the need for an ITS to address congestion issues. The plan would improve safety, mobility and efficiency through technology like traffic cameras and a traffic management center. It outlines goals like replacing aging equipment and establishing performance monitoring. Examples of ITS in other cities were reviewed and the plan proposes a phased implementation over several years, starting with signal upgrades and expanding to include more cameras and a traffic operations center. The ITS aims to better manage traffic during both regular and special events through remote monitoring and response.
Implementing an Intelligent Transportation System Master Plan
1. City of College Station
Intelligent Transportation System
Master Plan
Presentation to City Council
June 26, 2014
2. AGENDA
• What is and why implement ITS
• The College Station plan
• Examples in action
3. Problem -
Our transportation infrastructure –
highways and arterials, ports, and
airways – are simply over used.
Congestion has impacted every aspect
of our daily lives.
4. Problem -
• Congestion alone, accounts for over
$100 billion in lost productivity, wasted fuel, and
environmental damage.
Source: Texas Transportation
Institute
5. Fact -
The level of mobility
on which we have
come to depend
can no longer be
taken for granted
7. What is ITS?
• Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) is:
– Technology that is leveraged to :
• collect important information
• convey important information
• share information
• ITS helps make informed decisions
• ITS improves transportation safety and
mobility
• ITS enhances productivity
8. ITS
• ITS compliments traditional capacity
building practices
• ITS compliments current initiatives for
traffic management (Game Day)
• ITS is not a silver bullet. It cannot make
congestion go away, it can help
manage the
problem
9. ITS MASTER PLAN
BENEFITS
• Provides vision for ITS deployment in
the City
• Describes how system components
work together now and in the future
• Identifies opportunities for resource
sharing
10. Steps to Create the Plan
• Determine goals
• Develop concept of operations
• Identify state of the practice
• Determine technology and equipment
• Identify communications network topology
• Develop requirements
• Develop plan
11. Goals of ITS
• Improve safety and mobility
• Enhance security
• Increase staff efficiency
• Communicate to field devices
12. GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
Goal Objectives
Establish a Replacement Strategy
for Existing Equipment
Identify a strategy to replace existing legacy equipment
Include funding expenditure for equipment replacement
Establish Performance Monitoring
Program
Identify performance measures and data sources
Construct Traffic Management
Center
Identify the functions to be fulfilled from a central point of
command and control
Identify location
Identify funding
Provide real-time information about incidents to fire and police
departments
Evaluate traffic conditions in real-time
Establish Operational Strategies Review operations during special events
Respond to incidents
Support regional operations
Monitor traffic signal operations in real-time.
Establish System Health
Performance Monitoring
Identify types of operational data that will determine the
operational health of the system
Support the BCSMI Select equipment that will foster communication with partner
agencies equipment.
Remotely determine signal problems and evaluate needed repairs
13. SYSTEM TOURS
• Peer City Tours:
– Norman (OK)
– Frisco
– Garland
– Arlington
– Sugar Land
• Take Away:
– Traffic management centers enhance communication and
management
– Staffed TMC during peak periods, special events, incident
management
– Good communication network a must
– CCTV cameras are a significant benefit to managing traffic
demand and roadway congestion (planned and unplanned)
– Share data with partners
14. STATE OF THE PRACTICE
• Traffic signal controllers and cabinets
– City’s current cabinet architecture is based on a
1980’s era standard
– Decision to move to current
standard
– Replace strategically
over time
15. STATE OF THE PRACTICE
• Traffic management software
– Need a modern system to provide command
and control to all ITS devices
– Based on proven success
– Provide alerts, alarms, reports
– Real-time information
– Provide better management of the complete
system
– Support BCSMI where possible/practical