Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) uses advanced technologies and coordination between transportation agencies to provide travelers with real-time travel information across all modes (driving, transit, ridesharing) and encourage the use of alternatives to single-occupancy vehicles. The document describes a pilot ICM project along the I-95 corridor from Fredericksburg to Washington D.C. that will provide dynamic traveler information through a web portal and mobile apps to help travelers make more informed choices about their travel options.

1. INTEGRATED CORRIDOR MANAGEMENT
Enhancing personal mobility for all travelers

2. What is ICM?
 Integrated Corridor Management (ICM)
uses a combination of advanced
technologies to manage traffic flow and
inform travelers about different travel
options
 ICM looks at better ways of utilizing “all
seats” (bus, train and private vehicle) in
the corridor, rather than just focusing on
the mobility of individual vehicles

3. ICM Multi-Modal Orientation
 Encourage alternatives to single occupancy vehicles
 Improve overall system operations
 Provide favorable strategies for HOV and transit operations
 Support contiguous travel services for end-to-end trips
 Provide information to rideshare operators / coordinators
 Real-time parking availability at VDOT or transit lots
 Real-time road conditions
 Etc.

4. Stakeholder Engagement & Project
Development
Operations, Traffic, and
Travel Demand
As-Built Infrastructure and
ITS Assets
Transit Projects and
TDM Initiatives
Roadway Projects and
Transit/TDM Initiatives
Corridor Assessment
(Baseline)
Project Needs and
Strategy Formulation
Stakeholder
Needs
Technology
Options
Overall ICM
Approach
Coordination with
Transit / Other
VDOT and Multi-Modal Stakeholders
Project and
Operational
Knowledge
Needs and
Functional
Input
Deployment
Recommendations
System
Architecture
Technology
Definitions
System
Locations
Technology Deployment
Plan
Coordination
On System
Elements
Concept of
Operations
Performance
Measures
Refined System
Concept
Roles and
Responsibilities
Multi-modal
Operational Scenarios
Operational
Roles and
MOU Needs
ICM Project Development Activities

5. Institutional View

6. Institutional
Framework
I-95/I-395 Integrated
Corridor Management
Partnership
EXECUTIVE
LEADERSHIP
OPERATIONSMANAGEMENT

7. Multi-modal perspective:
Make all travel options more attractive
 Dynamic carpool and
rideshare information
 “511”-based journey
planner will look at
rideshare options along
with driving and transit
 Access to rideshare
matching and
reservations
 Preferred treatments for
transit and carpools
 Ramp meters will have
bypass lanes for HOV’s
and Express Buses
 Signal operations will be
prioritized to speed
Express Buses through
corridor

8. Advanced technologies:
Provide better operations strategies
 Traffic management
 Active traffic management
 Hard-shoulder running (peak /
congested periods)
 Set speed limits for conditions
 Warn of distance to stopped
traffic ahead
 Expand ramp metering
 Enhanced traffic signal timing
 Traveler Information
 Enhanced “511”
 Real-time comparison of
car, bus, train travel times /
transit arrival times
 Info on park-and-ride
space availability
 Electronic sign messages

9. Pilot ICM corridor in Virginia
 I-95 and I-395
 Fredericksburg to DC
 200,000+ commuters per day
 Multi-modal
 Freeway (I-95 and I-395)
 Reversible HOV (soon to be toll express) lane
 Arterial (US 1 and cross routes)
 Carpool
 Express bus
 Commuter rail
 Heavy rail transit

10. Other attributes of pilot corridor
 40,000+ parking spaces (VDOT, transit)
 1000 vanpools, 4000 carpools daily
 6450 commuters using “slug lines”
 Base relocation activities
 6400 employees relocating to Mark Center
in Alexandria
 Real-time ridesharing pilot (smartphone
application)
• Est. 500 riders, 1000 drivers

11. Potential Benefits ICM in Corridor
Benefit (TDM-related) *
Delay Reduction
Travel Time Reduction
Reduction in Travel Time Variability
Person Throughput (persons per ln.)
Reduced Fuel Consumption
Reduced Emissions
Reduced SOV Volumes
Reduced Travel Costs
Beneficiaries
Drivers / passengers (auto)
Transit users
Freight carriers
ICM Pilot Deployment (Corridor-
wide)
Signal Upgrades / TSP
(PW. Stafford, F-burg )
Hard Shoulder Running / ATM
(I-95 between Rt 610 and Rt 630)
Ramp Metering
(Rt 3 to I-495)
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ICM Pilot Signal Upgrades/TSP Hard Shoulder Running/ATM Ramp Metering
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LEGEND: ❶ Primary Benefit ❷ Secondary Benefit
* Advancing Metropolitan Planning for Operations, A Guidebook, FHWA, 2010

12. Information applications
 95/395 Portal on 511 web
and mobile
 Travel time info for all
modes
 Park-and-ride space info
 Integrated journey planner
with transit and rideshare
info and reservations
 Public kiosks / displays

13. Roadside applications
 Active traffic management  Real-time parking and
transit information

14. A Day in the Life….
Julia
Renee
Sam
Mike

15. A Day in the Life….
 Renee commutes from Dale City to Old
Town Alexandria
 Her issues: congestion and fuel prices
 Uses ICM web app at home to compare
driving with transit options
 Takes bus from home to VRE station
whenever there is an accident on
95/395 and she finds she can save
time/money

16. A Day in the Life….
 Mike drives from Fredericksburg to the Pentagon every
day, working the same hours each day except when he
goes home early to coach Little League
 He monitors the ICM web and mobile site to check on
conditions and compare driving with using VRE rail
 He subscribes to dynamic rideshare app; several
smartphone users contact him via the ICM journey
planner to arrange a pick-up at the park and ride
closest to his house, which would allow him to use the I-
95 Express Lanes free of charge
 Depending on conditions, he can choose to drive alone,
pick up riders at a nearby park-and-ride,
or use VRE

17. A Day in the Life….
 Julia drives from Stafford to Pentagon City
 Her work hours are flexible but 3 days a week she needs
to be back to pick up her daughter in day care by 5:30
pm (her husband picks her daughter up 2 days a week)
 She checks conditions on the ICM signs as she drives
 She compares travel times and checks if alternative modes
are faster and if there is parking available
 Depending on conditions, she can either drive all the way
(either normal or Express Lanes), take the Express Bus from
the park-and-ride, or park at Franconia-Springfield and
use Metro.

18. A Day in the Life….
 Sam is always in a hurry going
somewhere in DC from Occoquan
 He monitors his mobile ICM app to check
departure and arrival times of VRE as
well as travel times by car
 He uses his ICM journey planner to
arrange rides to his destination if
feasible (as passenger), both to and from
DC

19. Summary
 ICM is a way to better manage the transportation
network by improving the choices available to travelers
in the corridor
 Single-mode trips may become multi-mode trips
 Internet, wireless and roadside information helps
traveler make choices both prior to the trip and “on the
fly”
 Mobility becomes more about the traveler and less
about the vehicle