1. Mobility Goal--Continually improve the public’s access to activities, goods, and services through preservation, improvement, and expansion of the highway transportation system and enhancement of its operations, efficiency, and intermodal connections.
Strategic Objective --Improve operation of the highway system …..to increase transportation access for all people and commodities
Indicated by reduction in hours of delay
Performance Target -- Reduce hours of delay per 1000VMT by 20%

2. Delay (hours/
1000 vehicle miles
Year
N/A
N/A
Performance Target 2000: 9.0

3. Is Hours of Delay the best measure?
Probably not the only one
Others:
Congestion Index
Predictability or Reliability
Throughput
Travel Time
Accessibility
Consumer Satisfaction
Topic for Field Operations Council

4. Will Improving Operations Make a Difference?
65% reduced clearance time
35% fewer crashes
Reduction in travel time
Incident Management
Signal Timing/Control
Ramp Metering
8% - 25%
8 - 60% increase in speed
Traveler Information
50% of Travelers change route
45% of Travelers change departure time
Seattle MMDI Web use doubled in 8 months, tripled in severe weather

5. What Stands in the Way? 1. Fragmented Institutions
2. Culture and Underlying Policy defined by
Problem Solving
Completing a Project

6. Strategy 1. Top Down: ITS Infrastructure Deployment
2. Bottom Up: Expand on what we do well
(Low Hanging Fruit)
3. Amplify the Customer
4. Lay a Foundation for Art and Science
of Operations
Top Down
Deployment
Bottom up

7. Top Down: Deploying ITS Infrastructure
Architecture - Convenes Operations Stakeholders
Concept of Operations - Regional Operations Plan
Infrastructure itself enables Operations
Focus:
Transfer leadership to field
Standards Testing and Guidance
Tool Development

8. Interim Goal: INTEGRATED ITS Infrastructure in 75 Metro Areas
25 States
By the end of TEA-21

9. How are we Doing? Infrastructure Percent of Deployment Opportunity 17%
23%
11%
18%
36%
43%
22% 5%
15% 0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Percent of Deployment Opportunity
Management
Freeway
Management -
Incident
Arterial
Traffic Signal
Control
Toll Collection
Electronic
Transit
Fare Payment
Emergency
Highway Rail
Intersections
Regional Multimodal
Traveler Information

10. Comparison Medium High Low Percent of Deployment Opportunity 32% 37%
25% 7%
51%
33%
50%
34% 0%
57%
17%
10%
20%
30%
40%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Comparison
High
Percent of Deployment Opportunity 0%
24%
14% 2% 8% 7%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
No Toll Collection 0% 1%
22%
No Toll Collection
25%
50%
35%
17%
14%
10%
20%
30%
40%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Percent of Deployment Opportunity
Low
Medium

11. Expand What We Do Well (Low Hanging Fruit) Reducing Work Zone Delay
-Bringing Operations in at Planning Stage
-Valuing Delay
-Legacy Traffic Management - Building Smart Roads
Weather Response
Incident Management
Emergency Management/Response
Special Event Planning
Arterial Signal Control

12. Amplify the Customer National measures of how well the system operates
Monitored and reported nationally and locally
Consumer appetite for Traffic information growing
-N11 will drive more surveillance

13. Lay a Foundation for Art and Science of Operations
Benchmarking
-State of art
-State of Practice
-Norm
-Gaps
Constituency Building
Lay a
Foundation

14. Freight Mobility and Productivity Goals
Continuously improve the public’s access to activities, goods and services through preservation, improvement and expansion of the highway transportation system and enhancement of its operation, efficiency, and intermodal connections.
Productivity:
Continuously improve the economic efficiency of the Nation’s transportation system to enhance America’s position in the global economy.

15. Performance Goals Under Mobility: Under Productivity:
We have set the additional performance goal of improving the efficiency and capacity of existing intermodal connections on the NHS and serving new intermodal facilities
Under Productivity:
We have set the additional performance goal of reducing the cost of highway freight per ton mile
We have set a correlated performance goal of reducing the hours of delay per 1000 vehicle processed at NHS border crossings

16. Measures Hours of Delay Cost Per ton Mile -Target?
Reduce Hours of Delay at Border Crossings
-Data?
Intermodal Connector Efficiency??
Are these the right measures?
How do we measure and monitor?

17. Diagnosed Issues and Problems
ISTEA Studies:
Diagnosed Issues and Problems
Institutional Issues
Leveling planning process to better reflect freight geography
Conflicting standards
Lack of institutions for multi-state trade corridors

18. Diagnosed Issues and Problems .. cont.
ISTEA Studies:
Diagnosed Issues and Problems .. cont.
Infrastructure Issues
Adequacy of the physical condition of the system
for freight and defense
Impact of future demand and shifting load centers
What are the economic benefits of freight investments?
Effectiveness of funding mechanisms

19. Diagnosed Issues and Problems .. cont.
ISTEA Studies:
Diagnosed Issues and Problems .. cont.
Operations Issues
Information and communications standards
Technology applications to multi state corridors
Compatible business practices
Hazardous goods movement

20. Diagnosed Issues and Problems .. cont.
ISTEA Studies:
Diagnosed Issues and Problems .. cont.
Regulatory Issues
Standardization of freight vehicle and equipment
Balance of productivity and environmental goals
Conflicting city and state regulations

21. Strategies 1. Develop Freight Investment decision-making framework
2. Nurture multi-state freight/trade institutional partnerships
3. Directly invest in corridor & border improvements
4. Test ITS Application

22. FHWA Freight Productivity Program
Institutional/Planning
Freight Financing
FHWA Freight Review
FHWA North American Strategy
Freight Planning
Institutional, Funding Strategies, Planning Options, Institutions, etc….
Freight Improvement Strategies
Freight Partnerships
International Initiatives
Freight Performance Measures
Infrastructure
NHS Connector & Follow On
Marine Transport System
Intermodal Freight Analysis/Decision Framework
Intermodal Freight Capacity Analysis
Chicago Area Study
Re-Authorization
Revised FHWA investment models
Operations & Safety
International Border Clearance Program
Intermodal Freight Technology Group
ITS Intermodal Op Tests
Economic Benefits of Freight
Corridor/Border (1118/1119)
Regulatory
Size & Weight
Environmental Review
Intermodal Equipment
Other Freight Regulations

23. 2. Nurture Multi State Partnerships
Coordinate transportation planning, project development, system operations, and/or investment
Link state transportation agencies with Federal Inspection Services (Ag, Customs, INS, State) and international bridge owners/operators, usually binational
Promote economic development by consensus building, consciousness raising, creating linkages between economic development and transportation, etc.

24. Examples Eastern Border Coalitions Canadian Border Trade Alliance
Pacific Northwest Economic Region
Western Trade Network
SASHTO Latin American Trade Study
I-95 Coalition
I-10 Corridor
Ontario Michigan Gateway (others)

25. 3. Direct Investment in Border & Corridor Improvement
Multi-State Projects -11
Border Projects -24
$57.2 million
ITS Projects -10
$12.2. million

26. 4. Develop & Test ITS Applications
International Border Clearance Program
End to End Process Analysis for Container Movement
Architecture Development
Standards

27. Coordination Across the Agency
Field Operations Council
-Jeff Lindley, Council
-Virtual Group
-Steering Committee Meets 3 times a week
Headquarters Operations Council
NAFTA Council

28. PERFORMANCE MEASURES AND MEASURES OF SUCCESS
Goals Mission Vision
Performance Measures Adequate
Performance Measures Non-Existent
Customer Survey
Literature Survey & Bench Marks
Internal Sources
NAWG
BTS
ITE
AASHTO
Other States
TRIS
Candidate List of Measures of Effectiveness (MOE)
MOE Validation
Paper
Operational Test
Final MOE Selection
Targets