ITS National Associations Working Group
Meeting Summary
Thursday, December 12, 2002
400 Virginia Avenue, SW, Suite
800
Washington, DC 20024
Agenda
List of Attendees
Marcia Pincus, Intelligent Transportation Society of America
(ITSA)
Ms. Pincus welcomed those in attendance for the last meeting of
the National Association Working Group for 2002. Ms. Pincus mentioned some of
the many documents available from ITSA that can be helpful to NAWG members.
- Public Safety Advisory Group tri-fold
- Transit Signal Priority and Overview
- ITS America Reauthorization Principles (as they stand)
- ITS and Emergency Medical Services
Upcoming events:
- ITS America Annual Meeting - May 2003 Minneapolis, MN
- ITS World Congress - Madrid, Spain 2003 (deadline for papers February
2003)
All Working Group Members: ITS Activities - Update
Delania Hardy, AMPO
- Latest newsletter available from AMPO - Articles on the Hampton Roads and
Washington metropolitan planning organizations
- Annual Meeting - March 25-27, 2003 Washington D.C.
www.ampo.org
Kelly, Novak, NADO
Peggy Tadej, NARC
- NARC Conference - March 15-19 Washington D.C.
- NARC 36th Annual Meeting - June 20-24 2003 will be held in
Pittsburgh, PA
http://www.narc.org/
Jeff Secrist, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)
Update on the Commercial Vehicle
Information Systems and Networks (CVISN) Deployment Program -
Presentation
FMCSA Summary
- December 1999 - The FMCSA became a separate operating agency distinct from
the FHWA within the Department of Transportation
- During the year 2001 5,082 fatalities resulted from commercial motor
vehicle crashes. During the year 2000 approximately 140,000 injuries resulted
from commercial motor vehicle crashes
- Mission
- Save Lives and Reduce Injuries by Preventing Truck and
Bus Crashes
- Safety Goal
- Reduce the Numbers of Deaths and Injuries in Truck
and Bus Crashes 50 Percent by 2010
- The FMCSA will use ITS and other technology to move towards the safety
goal.
- Organizational and personnel changes have recently taken place within the
FMCSA due to retirements
CVISN
- Federal, state, and industry partners participate in an interagency
deployment effort
- National, state and carrier information systems are integrated
- Various commercial vehicle activity processes and paperwork are simplified
through CVISN deployment
- Redundancy between various agencies reduced through CVISN
- Information shared between states and stakeholder agencies
- Will utilize vendor commercial architecture for deployment
- Keys to successful deployment
- Systematic approach with states
- Effectively guiding states through planning and design of CVISN
architecture
CVISN Deployment Assessment
- FMCSA monitors steps towards CVISN deployment on a state level
- Planning - develop ITS/CVO State Business Plan
- Design - develop CVISN program plan and system design with appropriate
consideration for the numerous stakeholders involved. Series of free
workshops are available that address business engineering, integrating
systems, and architecture
- Deployment - implement Level 1 capabilities in three areas:
- Safety information exchange (given priority if limited funding is
available)
- Interstate credentials administration
- Roadside electronic screening
Update on State of CVISN Deployment
Planning and Design
- All states have received ITS/CVO training
- 41 states have State Business Plans developed
- 10 states are currently developing business plans
- 41 states have completed CVISN deployment workshops
- 34 states have developed CVISN Program Plans and Top-Level System
Designs
CVISN Deployment
- All states use the ASPEN electronic inspection and safety data information
system
- 42 states are using the SAFER system to exchange interstate commercial
vehicle electronic safety and inspection data
- 24 states will implement a CVIEW or equivalent information exchange window
system by September 2003
- 33 states perform electronic credentialing for one or more CVO credentials
or have interface with the IRP or IFTA clearinghouse
- 34 states perform electronic screening, allowing commercial vehicles an
interface with IRP to permit funds transfer or disseminate information through
a transponder.
- 9 states are currently fully funded
- 34 states have obtained funding through federal earmark process; states
have also used state funding sources
- Emphasis on deployment of existing systems in order to assess benefits
- Presidential mandate for Electronic Government is positive for the CVISN
program
- Current focus on freight and port security initiatives
CVISN Future Activities
- Deploy Level 1 capabilities for safety information exchange, interstate
credentials, and electronic screening in all states
- Integrate and expand electronic motor carrier credentialing systems
- Expand deployment of electronic motor carrier credentialing systems
- Identify high-risk commercial drivers and carriers that employ them
- Define operational concepts for enhanced CVISN capabilities
- Support state CVISN deployment efforts
- Improve information sharing through electronic credentialing and driver
information exchange
- Equip highway facilities with the latest technologies, information
systems, and communication networks
- Support electronic credentialing, including the use of web-based systems
- Hazardous Materials Transportation Safety and Security Operational Test
- Measures the effectiveness of safety and security technologies and
procedures
- Examines what existing measures can be used in transportation
security
- Assessment of CVO security and the potential use of equipment to damage
supply chains, warehouses, or monuments
- Assessment of passenger security, including tracking transit vehicles,
driver and passenger verification, baggage screening, weapons and hazardous
materials detection, and surveillance and emergency alarms
technology
Discussion
- Safety information for commercial vehicles as determined in the roadside
inspection includes driver information; brake check, and overall vehicle
safety inspection. CVISN will move towards having inspection information
available electronically to avoid redundancy. Field audits as performed by
FMCSA include checking central offices to ensure proper documentation.
Information collected in roadside and field audits should be integrated into a
central location.
- AMBA is working on an initiative to enhance current driver suspension
information. Thorough access is needed to driver information so employers can
make better-informed hiring decisions.
- It is not known if FEMA has a Hazmat database used for rerouting
vehicles/trucks around highly populated areas, and provide contact for load
information. The Virginia DOT has a record matching each load to an owner.
RSPA may have a Hazmat registry system; however this is not part of CVISN.
Some states do have their own information systems on Hazmat; there is
opportunity for integration into the CVISN program.
FMCSA Events
ITS/CVO Deployment Showcase 2003: January 28-30, 2003 in Las Vegas, NV
www.2003itsforum.org
FMCSA Office of Research and Technology TRB Workshop
New Beginnings -
Investments and Relationships
January 12, 2003 8:30 to noon
Joanice
Cole 202/334-2287
David Helman, Federal Highway Administration
FHWA Traffic Incident
Management Program Initiatives
FHWA Traffic Incident Management Program
Initiatives - Presentation
Regional and Statewide Programs and Institutional Coordination
- Responsibilities
- Budget allocation
- Formal Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) and high-level operations
policy agreements with state departments of transportation and highway
patrol
- Multi-agency administrative teams
- Performance measurement at the program level
- Previous Activities
- Traffic Incident Management Handbook
- Regional TIM Programs - Implementation Guide
- Performance Measures Study
- Initiated Programs Case Studies
- Initiated TIM Pooled Funds Study
- Planned FY 03 Activities
- TIM Self Assessment in each of the top 75 urban areas.
- Support National TIM Organization with AASHTO
- Develop regional and Statewide TIM program case studies
- Organize TIM pooled fund studies
- Implement clearinghouse/information activities
- Beyond 03
- National TIM organization developed through case studies
- Continue TIM Self-Assessment
- Continue to support the TIM Program model; clearinghouse; and pooled
fund studies
On-Scene Operations
- Responsibilities
- Response and clearance procedures and policies
- Responder and motorist's safety
- Working with both police and fire on resource utilization
- Developing an organized approach with all stakeholders
- Previous Activities
- Continuing work with Model Procedures Guide
- Completed NCUTLO Model Traffic Ordinance
- NHI workshops
- MUTCD and public safety
- Responder safety projects with FEMA/USFA
- Planned FY 03 Activities
- Completion of Model Procedures Guide - To include assignment of
traffic control tasks and definition of scope
- Complete NHI course revision
- Support NHI course presentations
- Begin development of crash investigation issues and procedures
- TIMTOW traffic incident management towing publication in cooperation
with the TRAA
- FEMA/USFA responder safety projects
- Working to help states address small quantity spillage of fuel
- Beyond 03
- Support TIM workshops
- Develop ICS training for traffic incidents
- Support towing certification outreach
- Examine traffic incident management issues in work zones
- Hazardous materials issues and procedures
Integrated Interagency Communications and Technologies
- Responsibilities
- Communications among responding agencies
- Computer aided dispatch
- ITS systems in traffic incident management
- Previous Activities
- Development of incident management standards
- Integrated incident management systems
- Planned FY 03 Activities
- Begin CAD-ITS field operational tests
- Complete incident management standards
- IIMS project evaluation
- Beyond 03
- Complete communication standards
- Outreach and training on communication standards
- Define issues in integrated communications
ITS Deployment in Virginia's Northern Shenandoah Region
James R.
Robinson, Virginia Department of Transportation, Public Mobility
Division
Project Details
- Interstate 81 Corridor
- Tennessee to Pennsylvania
- Four lane interstate
- 325 miles
- Commercial vehicle percent 20% to 50%.
- Proximity to 6 urban areas
- Initiated in 1997
Status
- Initially developed to address multiple work zone technologies
- Model deployment performed in northern counties prior to 1997
- Part of the statewide approach to ITS - programs include Northern
Virginia, Richmond, and Hampton Roads
- Focus to improve system management, as well as improve operation and
safety of the system
- VDOT has actively supported private sector deployment of ITS
- Credentialing, license, and taxes administered by the DMV
- Proposals from contractors for ITS deployment due in January
17th
Objectives
- Develop an overall framework for coordination, planning, and design of ITS
for the I-81 corridor
- Identify areas where ITS can provide the most benefits, particularly
considering partnering arrangements
- Coordinate ITS investment program among 5 planning districts, and 8
areas
ITS Program's Four Fundamental Areas
- System operation
- Commercial vehicle operations
- Traveler information
- Traveler Safety
511
- Began in Northern Shenandoah Valley as an 800 telephone number
- November 02 has the record for the largest volume of calls in 1 month with
8,800
Steve Kerr, Executive Director, Northern Shenandoah Valley Regional
Commission
Northern Shenandoah
Valley ITS Program Up-date - Presentation
- ITS deployment in the Shenandoah Valley has benefited from several federal
funding earmarks
- Pre-deployment of ITS in 1997 to 1998 now fully implemented
Objectives
- Integrate data throughout entire Shenandoah valley
- Issuance of request for proposal
- Review and accept proposal
- Demonstration deployment
Overview
- Located in Planning District 7
- Various stakeholders involved
- Community groups
- Schools
- County social service departments
- Private industry
- Special interest groups
- University of Virginia
- Work force agencies
- Agency on Aging
- Regional Commission
- ITS integrates information from all center representatives
- Will build in a computer aided dispatch capability
- Will build in an electronic data directory to coordinate the flow of data
defining the incident location with appropriate equipment
dispatched
Next Project
- Coordinated human services transportation
- Route matching capability coordinating route and equipment resources for
optimal performance
- Creating efficiency coordination and collaboration for the transport of
disadvantaged people
- Vehicle tracking mechanism such as advanced vehicle location
- Potential for medical reimbursement through electronic payment services
- Utilizing the Institutional Assistance Program to create a district
concept of operations
Discussion
- Potential for information on Shenandoah ITS deployment to be submitted as
a paper for the Transportation Research Board 2004 Annual Meeting.
- Working Group members expressed interest in seeing the model deployment
initiative as a model to reference. Case study reports are available at the
electronic document interchange (EDI) http://www.itsdocs.fhwa.dot.gov/itsweb/welcome.htm.
- Collaboration is the key to a successful ITS deployment. Much effort was
dedicated to defining and including all stakeholders on the I-81 project.
Without a regional mechanism to bring groups together it can be challenging.
ICDN - Update
Jerry Werner, ICDN
- Membership now up to 8,362
- Page views totaled 28,000 for November, up 11% from October
- Items are available on the ITS Cooperative Deployment Network
- A Guide for HOT Lane Development
- Guidance on Traffic Control Devices at Highway-Rail Grade Crossings
- Legislative Conference on ITS and TEA-21 Reauthorization (January 10,
2003)
- Support Shown for Galileo, Europe's First Satellite Navigation System
- Enhanced ITS Public Safety Web Page
(Includes new online address)
- ICDN User Survey
(Feedback needed from all members)
- At Long Last, Trips123 Prepares to Go Public
(Fourth model
deployment, to provide integrated transit information systems)
- FHWA Congestion Mitigation Web Site
(Includes links to various
resources available from FHWA)
- New 511 Activity in Arizona, South Dakota, and Iowa
- Fall 2002 "Metropolitan Transportation Management & Operations: ITS
Newsletter
- ITS America to Conduct Regional Transit Signal Priority Workshops
(Includes a new piece on the smart bus priority system)
- Case Studies on Managing Travel for Planned Special Events (10 case
studies on handling federal planned events)
- Advanced Public Transportation Systems Deployment in the United States:
Year 2000 Update
- Rural ITS Toolbox course being offered details at the National Highway
Institutes (NHI's) website
- TRB 2003 Annual Meeting Interactive Program (Interactive planner highly
recommended for those attending TRB
- Please encourage members to join the ICDN
- Contact Ed Stollof, Laurie Radow, or Jerry Werner to make the ICDN
resources available on your website
E-Dialogue - Update
Laurie Radow, FHWA
Currently looking to expand the electronic dialogue on the ICDN
Initiatives
- Broaden policy perspectives
- Potential for issue leaders to moderate the conversation/issues for each
month
- Looking for members to have the ICDN on their website
- Focus on integrating operations
Jerry Werner, ICDN
- Working towards customizing electronic versions of the dialogue with NAWG
member logos
- The issue leader/moderator will work with associations to format questions
- Building a calendar of events
Business Meeting
Laurie Radow, FHWA
Please send comments or
thoughts on the meeting or any NAWG related information to Laurie Radow at
Laurel.Radow@fhwa.dot.gov
Handout
Public Technology, Inc. (PTI) Performance Measurement - An
Institutional perspective from state and local transportation agencies. Copies
available to Working Group members, contact Laurie Radow for copies.
Ms. Radow thanked Marcia Pincus for hosting the meeting; Jeff Secrist, David
Helman, James Robinson, and Steve Kerr for their presentations; and all Working
Group members in attendance.
Next Meeting
Time and Date: 9.45 a.m. - noon; Thursday, January 30,
2003
Location: ICMA, 777 North Capitol Street
Topic and Speakers: Mike
Onder, FHWA: Intermodal Freight Security
Andrea Jacobs, FHWA:
Value Pricing
Wayne Berman, FHWA: Planning for Operations
D.
Chappell, FHWA: P2P on Traffic Control Devices
National Associations Working Group for ITS
December 12,
2002
9:45 a.m. - noon
ITS America
400 Virginia Avenue, SW, Suite
800
Washington, DC 20024
Agenda
Opening Remarks and Introductions
Marcia Pincus, ITS America (10
minutes)
Update on the CVISN Deployment Program
Jeff Secrist, Federal Motor
Carrier Safety Administration (15-minute presentation, 10 minutes
discussion)
Update on the
Commercial Vehicle Information Systems and Networks (CVISN) Deployment Program -
Pres
FHWA Traffic Incident Management Program
David Helman, Federal
Highway Administration (20 minute presentation, 15 minute discussion)
FHWA Traffic Incident Management Program
Initiatives - Presentation
Overview of ITS Program in Virginia
James R. Robinson, Virginia DOT,
Public Mobility Division (10 minute presentation, 10 minute discussion)
ITS Deployment in Virginia's Northern Shenandoah Valley Region
Steve
Kerr, Executive Director from Northern Shenandoah Valley Regional Commission (10
minute presentation, 10 minute discussion)
Northern Shenandoah Valley ITS Program
Up-date - Presentation
ICDN - Update
Ed Stollof, ITE and Jerry Werner, ICDN (5
minutes)
E-Dialougue - Update
Laurie Radow, FHWA (5 minutes)
Bussines Meeting
Laurie Radow, FHWA (5 minutes)
Next Meeting
Date: Thursday, January 30, 2003
Time and
location: 9:45 am - noon ICMA 777 North Capitol Street
Topic and
Speakers:
Mike Onder, FHWA: Intermodal Freight Security
Andrea
Jacobs, FHWA: Value Pricing
Wayne Berman, FHWA: Planning for
Operations
D. Chappell, FHWA: P2P on Traffic Control Devices
National Associations Working Group for ITS
December 13, 2002
Attendees
Delania Hardy, Association of Metropolitan Planning
Organizations
Bridget Hennessey, Association of Metropolitan Planning
Organizations
Zia Burleigh, International City/Council Management
Association
Marcia Pincus, ITS America
Peggy Tadej, National
Association of Regional Councils
Chris Kvam, National Association of
Regional Councils
Ed Stollof, Institute of Transportation
Engineers
Steve Kerr, Northern Shenandoah Valley Regional
Commission
James R. Robinson, Virginia Department of
Transportation
Matt Sundeen, National Conference of State
Legislatures
James Davenport, National Association of
Counties
Kelly Novak, National Association of Development Organization
Research Foundation
Larry Brown, Federal Highway
Administration
David Helman, Federal Highway Administration
Jeff
Secrist, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Laurie Radow,
Federal Highway Administration
Steve Mortensen, Mitretek
Brett
Graves, Science Applications International Corporation
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