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MassDOT Port of New Bedford Truck Appointment System New Bedford, Massachusetts MassDOT Regional ITS Architecture Updates Massachusetts MassDOT ITS Deployment and Development Guide Massachusetts Rhode Island DOT On-Call Services Providence, Rhode Island Rhode Island DOT Performance Measures Rhode Island ITS Strategic Plan Regional Transportation Operations Strategies (RTOS) Massachusetts Department of Transportation/Highways New Bedford ITS Deployment New Bedford, Massachusetts San Juan Light Rail Feasibility Study City of San Juan, Puerto Rico |
MassDOT Port of New Bedford Truck Appointment System
New Bedford, Massachusetts
As part of the New Bedford ITS Project, KCUS was chosen to develop a Truck Appointment System
for the Port of New Bedford. KCUS worked with MassDOT, the Harbor Development Commission,
and the private terminal operator to develop a pilot system leveraging the existing business process
at the port. The Truck Appointment System allows truckers and freight dispatchers to schedule
appointments before arriving at the port with the private terminal operator as well as receive real-time
traffic alerts and information on local “truck friendly” businesses. The back end of the system allows the
public harbor authority to oversee congestion while the private operator has access to terminal
management data. Overall, the system is focused on decreasing congestion around the port area,
increasing data collection on freight movement and providing a management tool for the public and private
waterfront agencies to expand operations.
MassDOT Regional ITS Architecture Updates
Massachusetts
Massachusetts’ four Regional ITS Architectures were completed in April 2005. These federally mandated
architectures established a framework for interagency ITS coordination for four separate regions covering
the entire state. These regions were: Western Massachusetts, Central Massachusetts, Metropolitan Boston,
and Southeastern Massachusetts. In order to remain relevant to regional transportation stakeholders,
these regional ITS architectures need to be reviewed and updated to reflect changes in the National ITS
Architecture, the reorganization of transportation agencies in Massachusetts, updated Regional
Transportation Plans (RTPs), and new transportation projects, plans, policies, procedures, and
infrastructure implemented since 2005. KCUS performed a Quality Assurance (QA) review for all four
regions’ TurboArchitecture files and Visio market package diagrams.
MassDOT ITS Deployment and Development Guide
Massachusetts
KCUS staff is part of a team creating the MassDOT ITS Deployment and Development Guide to provide more detailed planning and design criteria for ITS device deployment throughout the Commonwealth as established in the MassDOT ITS Strategic Plan. This manual provides exact coordinates for device deployment including location, power and communications descriptions as well as device final design plans, device specifications, quality and cost estimation and construction phase services. The MassDOT ITS Deployment and Development Guide will be used as a manual for consultants and contractors for planning, cost, design and build projects that involve CMS, CCTV, traffic monitoring, RWIS, and solar-powered devices.
Rhode Island DOT On-Call Services
Providence, Rhode Island
KCUS staff is currently providing on-call services to Rhode Island DOT. To date, KCUS has worked on projects to deploy travel times to drivers, map planned event and incident flows for the state, assess the current 511 provider and help RIDOT develop 511 Request for Proposals. To deploy travel times to drivers, KCUS staff presented a phased deployment of travel time messages on DMS throughout Rhode Island from the Connecticut and Massachusetts border. Following FHWA recommendations and best practices, the team detailed a four phase approach with single message phase formats, data flow diagram, and schedule. KCUS staff was responsible for determining existing data sources and data processes while identifying additional resources for future deployments, the accuracy of the current data collected and the major destinations to include on the DMS boards. Assessing the current 511 provider, KCUS staff performed an acceptance test to determine if the service met the needs of RIDOT at a low cost. Following the acceptance test, KCUS staff worked together with RIDOT to meet the major 511 vendors in New England to develop criteria and requirements for a new 511 Request for Proposal.
Rhode Island DOT Performance Measures
Rhode Island
KCUS staff is part of a team to determine performance measures for the RIDOT Traffic Management
Center (TMC) to improve safety and traffic operations and provide a baseline for TMC and ITS operations.
KCUS evaluated the data currently collected by the TMC and FHWA recommended performance measures to
determine metrics that could be developed by utilizing existing data, representative of TMC operations,
and repeatable. Performance measures include travel time reliability indices, average incident clearance time,
crash rate, equipment uptime and frequency of congestion. KCUS staff calculated the performance measures
for 2010 and 2009 for the same month on a test segment as a baseline for comparison and created a 1 page
report card. Following the test segment, performance measures for the remaining major interstates for
Rhode Island were calculated for 2010 and 2009. Next steps include creating a network summary for the
state and producing a ITS novice-friendly version that the TMC can post online as a trip planning tool.
ITS Strategic Plan
Regional Transportation Operations Strategies (RTOS)
Massachusetts Department of Transportation/Highways
KCUS Staff played a lead role in the preparation of the ITS Strategic Plan and the Regional
Transportation Operations Strategies for the MassDOT/Highways ITS Programs.
The ITS Strategic Plan
provides a roadmap to the implementation of ITS devices and strategies over the next 5 years to meet
four important goals:
1) Improved incident management;
2) Improved congestion management/customer service;
3) Improved safety/security management; and
4) Improved management for cost-effective operations.
For each of the four goals, specific objectives were defined. Recommendations to address each of the objectives were determined and categories into short, medium and long term time frames. In order to assess the impacts from the recommendations, performance measures were defined to allow MassDOT to determine how effective the recommendations were in meeting the four goals mentioned above. The ITS Strategic Plan included a Business Plan with cost estimates for each of the recommendations, and an assessment of existing ITS expenditure by MassDOT. Recommendations were made on allocation of funds towards ITS in order to achieve the recommendations included in the strategic plan. In addition to the ITS Strategic Plan, KCUS Staff were also involved in the preparation of the Regional Transportation Operations Strategy document. This document deals primarily with regional transportation systems management and operations issues, and focuses on recommendations for various regional stakeholders (both transportation and public safety agencies) to meet the four goals mentioned above. The recommendations were based upon stakeholder interviews and workshop which defined the common stakeholder needs and helped indentify existing systems and efforts that could form “building blocks” for regional transportation system management and operations strategies.
New Bedford ITS Deployment
New Bedford, Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, through the Executive Office of Transportation (EOT),
has undertaken an Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) project for the City of New Bedford to support the City’s goal of becoming the region’s hub for passenger and freight movement.
The New Bedford ITS project presents an opportunity to integrate a variety of
initiatives and information sources on an
affordable scale to achieve common
goals across all modes of
transportation in the community: highway, arterial,
bridge,
freight, passenger terminal, port operations, airport, and transit.
Both the security and efficiency of the transportation
networks are of paramount
importance to New Bedford,considering its status as a high-value
working fishery port and
tourist destination.
The New Bedford ITS deployment plan is to fulfill the objective to improve transportation
management includingroad traffic,
transit and ferry, and freight operations; and to improve security of the transportation infrastructure
including the airport,
port and road network.Improvements in the efficiency and security of the transportation system will yield the outcome
that is ultimately desired – the opportunity for economic development.
The key to achieving these objectives is effective
integration of systems, information and operations.
The New Bedford ITS project has been divided into two phases. The goal of the first phase is to develop the
concept of operations and feasibility assessment for the proposed New Bedford ITS system.
The goal of the second phase is to design and deploy the ITS system.
San Juan Light Rail Feasibility Study
City of San Juan, Puerto Rico
KCUS was part of a team commissioned to perform a feasibility study of a proposed 5-mile Light Rail Technology (LRT) project in the City of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The proposed LRT would provide transit service between the Tren Urbano metro system at Sagrado Corazon and the
historic and commercial districts in Old San Juan as well as the Convention Center.
As a first phase, KCUS was responsible for analyzing the corridor and transportation systems between
Sagrado Corazon andOld San Juan and recommended a preferred alignment option while identifying
the locations of the various intermediary passenger stations. As part of this phase, KCUS conducted an
extensive assessment of the various LRT as well as Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) technology options.
Several alignment options were considered from which two feasible alignments
were selected for detailed conceptual engineering and development of plans and typical sections.
KCUS was also responsible for the conceptual design of the maintenance facility.
For the second phase of this project, KCUS developed the capital cost projections and evaluation,
and prepared an operating plan in terms of speed, frequency of service, operational staff
,and
maintenance procedures. KCUS also prepared an estimate for annual operations
and maintenance costs for the LRT system.
Lastly, KCUS defined a projected time schedule for the installation
of the LRT system and its operation, and took part in industry outreach
conferences in San Juan.