Information Systems and Technology Committee (ABJ50) Seattle, Washington May 3, 2009 (Updated July 7, 2009)

Agenda 1.Call to Order 2.New Members 3.Review of Annual Meeting 4.Strategic Highway Research Program 2 5.Research Topics a.Submitted b.New Ideas 6.Strategic Directions for Committee a. Brainstorming b. Open Discussion

Agenda (continued) 7.Subcommittees 8.Future Meetings 9.Topics a.Workshops b.Invited Sessions

New Members and Introductions

Annual Meeting Activities Workshops Committee Meeting Sponsored Sessions

Strategic Highway Research Program 2 Title: Implementing the Results of the Second Strategic Highway Research Program Saving Lives, Reducing Congestion, Improving Quality of Life Estimated funding: $400 million Executive-level oversight committee w/IT

SHRP2 Focus Areas Safety: Significantly improve highway safety by achieving an understanding of driving behavior through a study of unprecedented scale. Renewal: Develop design and construction methods that cause minimal disruption and produce long-lasting facilities to renew the aging highway infrastructure. Reliability: Reduce congestion and improve travel time reliability through incident management, response, and mitigation. Capacity: Integrate mobility, economic, environmental, and community needs into the planning and design of new transportation capacity.

Research Topics Submitted 2009 Sensor Technology Guide Construction Site Technology Hosting Solutions for a Transportation Organization (Cloud Computing)

Research Topics - New Putting IT Back into ITS Impact of Transparency on IT Systems Infrastructure to support Customer Needs Green IT for Modern Transportation Organizations

Critical Issues in Transportation The Executive Committee of the TRB has outlined the most critical transportation issues facing the nation in this first decade of the new century: CONGESTION: increasingly congested facilities across all modes; EMERGENCIES: vulnerability to terrorist strikes and natural disasters; ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT: extraordinary challenges; EQUITY: burdens on the disadvantaged;

Critical Issues (continued) FINANCE: inadequate revenues; HUMAN AND INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL: inadequate investment in innovation; INFRASTRUCTURE: enormous, aging capital stock to maintain; INSTITUTIONS: 20th century institutions mismatched to 21st century missions; and SAFETY: lost leadership in road safety.

State CIO Priorities 2009 Priority Technologies, Applications and Tools 1. Virtualization (storage, computing, data center) 2. Document/Content/ management (active, repository, archiving, digital preservation) 3. Legacy application upgrade and modernization (ERP) 4. Networking, voice and data communications, unified communications 5. Web 2.0 (services, collaboration technologies, social computing) 6. Green IT Technologies and solutions 7. Identity and access management 8. Geospatial analysis and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) 9. Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics applications 10. Mobile worker enablement Source: NASCIO

FIVE TECHNOLOGIES TO INVEST IN EVEN IN A DOWNTURN 1.Storage 2.Business Intelligence 3.Virtualization 4.Security 5.Cloud Computing Source: Tom Sullivan, Computerworld, November 19, 2008

Cross-Cutting Issues Capacity (or congestion) of the transportation system: what does the future hold? Getting rid of the seams (integrating modes and institutions for a more seamless transportation system) Matching transportation systems to the communities they serve (context sensitivity, land use/sprawl, demographics, environmental justice, economic impacts, etc.) The growing shortage of transportation personnel: outlook, implications, experiences, and actions Making transportation investment decisions – art or science?

Cross-Cutting Issues (continued) Transportation, energy, and climate change Balancing environmental and transportation goals Moving the goods: giving freight the attention it deserves Show me the money: meeting the long term funding needs for transportation Safety: future options that could make a real difference Security: where do we go from here? Renewing the aging transportation infrastructure

How Does IT Help??

Discussion Ideas May 2009 Help business determine data needs Make greater use of business intelligence tools to mine data, identify trends, and manage assets Promote safety data systems and analysis What are best approaches for IT governance and management of data resources. What are the lessons learned from consolidation initiatives

Strategic Direction for Committee The strategic directions for the future are: Identify emerging technologies and promote research that encourages innovative approaches to using these technologies. Identify and support the use of data analysis to improve safety and security of our transportation systems. Identify and support research on ways to integrate information technologies with other technologies being developed for use on a construction site. Study organizational structures and relationships that best support the use of technology to better operate our transportation systems.

Strategic Directions (continued) Partner with the AASHTO Information Systems Subcommittee to maintain a tie to the State Transportation IT executives and seek ways to address their needs. Promote the innovative uses of information systems and data to address the critical issues in transportation. Partner with other TRB committees to include consideration of information system needs and data in addressing their functional areas. Identify the data needs of transportation executives and determine the best tools for providing assessments, decision information, and trends. Place more emphasis on research needs of stakeholders and monitor progress of defined research activities..

Strategic Directions (continued) A. What are the key long term and emerging issues that your committee is tracking? 1) Addressing effective organizational structures and partnerships that are necessary to create a responsive IT organization within our transportations agencies. 2) Determining the best use of open source solutions when selecting IT tools and products. 3) Development of a recommended IT architecture for supporting transportation processes and policies. 4) Identifying the technologies that support mobile activities such as traffic counters, bridge inspectors, road inspectors, and surveyors. 5) Dealing with the convergence of multiple technologies for supporting construction site efficiencies, the vehicle information integration efforts, safety and security concerns, and data analysis with exponential increases in data being collected.

Strategic Directions (continued) B. What plans do you have to address cross-cutting issues with other committees? Critical and Cross-cutting Issues 1) Partner with the Construction Management Committee (AFH10) 2) Partner with the Committees on Emerging Technology for Design and Construction (AFH 30), Critical Transportation Infrastructure Protection (ABE40), and the Task Force on Training, Education, and Technology Transfer (ABE40(5)) 3) Partner with the committees working safety, security, and congestion issues to make better use of data and data analysis tools. 4) Partner with Geospatial Information Systems Committees to develop a road map for making better use of GIS within state DOT’s

Strategic Directions (continued) 4. Committee Activity Plans A. What activities are planned next year to achieve your goals? 1) Workshop to promote use of information technologies to better manage construction. (This workshop is well attended and getting a following). 2) Include DOT CIO staff at annual meeting committee session 3) Conduct mid-year meeting and workshop with AASHTO IS subcommittee meeting to get input from DOT IT executives about their needs. Partner with AASHTO to promote IT research needs

Strategic Directions (continued) 4) Create a strategic plan for research that is part of the committee structure and operations. 5) Learn more about open source directions, architectures, and standards. 6) Develop a strategy to communicate IT research needs, educational activities, and knowledge transfer. B. What activities are envisioned in future years? 1) Partnering with research activities related to the application of restricted use technologies in transportation organizations. 2) Promote research based on defined needs of stakeholders 3) Focus more attention on research needs and ways to achieve a greater number of research activities.

Strategic Directions (continued) For consideration (add to plan): Promote the use of web 2.0 tools by transportation organizations Make better use of social networking tools- U-tube, wikis, blogs, webcasts, etc. Research issues from adopting cloud computing Make greater use of a virtual world – Second Life Join connected communities –twitter, flickr, facebook Promote use of virtualization technologies to save resources and improve performance Support transportation Green Strategies with Green IT

Strategic Directions (continued) Explore greater use of shared services by states and across jurisdictions Use U-Tube for public services such as work safety messages Promote sound IT management practices of IT resources deployed for ITS and connected vehicle technologies Make use of web technologies to connect transportation teams and support training objectives Explore workforce management practices to address loss of and transitions of technical workforce

Strategic Directions (continued) Research IT needs to support growing data demands for programs related to National Performance Measures, Business Intelligence, traffic monitoring, and asset management Work with other committees to enable use of GIS and spatial technologies Promote the use of IT technology to support the growing demand for transparency, digital government, and open access to public data

Subcommittees Research Paper Reviews IT for Better Construction Management Sensor Technologies IT and ITS Workforce Management (Will add to Jan 2010 committee agenda)

Future Meetings 2009 Joint Summer Meeting “Forging Ahead in Uncertain Times” July 19-22, Seattle, Washington 2010 Annual Meeting “Investing in Our Transportation Future - BOLD Ideas to Meet BIG Challenges” January 10-14, 2010, Washington, DC

Ideas for Future Meetings Topics Workshops Call for Papers

Closing Thoughts Adjournment Send ideas and comments to Doug Couto