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Integrated Corridor Management
Overview and Activities
  • Jeff Lindley
  • Director, Office of Transportation Management
  • FHWA
  • February 28, 2005
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Outline
  • ITS Initiatives
  • What is the Problem
  • Initiative Overview
  • What’s Next?
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ITS Initiatives
  • USDOT ITS program reoriented to focus on fewer, larger, higher-risk, high-payoff “major initiatives”
  • Nine Major initiatives were approved by the Management Council
  • Directly support USDOT’s goals of safety, mobility and global connectivity
  • Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) is one of the major ITS initiatives started in 2004




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Corridors
  • Currently surface transportation systems are made up of several independent networks
    • Freeways, including managed lanes
    • Arterials
    • Bus Routes
    • Rail Transit
  • Efforts to date to “reduce congestion” have  focused on optimization of individual networks
  • These parallel network links overlay to form transportation corridors
    • Metropolitan areas contain several major corridors
  • Corridors offer an opportunity to operate and optimize the entire system as opposed to the individual networks


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Initial Definitions
  • Corridor
    • A corridor is defined as a combination of discrete adjacent surface transportation networks (e.g., freeway, arterial, transit networks) that link the same major origins and destinations.


  • Integrated Corridor Management (ICM)
    • Integrated corridor management is the coordination of individual network operations between adjacent facilities that creates an interconnected system capable of cross- network travel management.


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Integrated Corridor Management
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Integrated Corridor Management Initiative
  • Vision
    • Improved mobility through integrated management of transportation assets – freeways, arterials, transit, managed lanes – in major transportation corridors in metropolitan areas
  • Approach
    • Address Institutional, operational, and technical barriers to successful integrated corridor management
    • Demonstrate how mobility, safety and productivity can be increased in major corridors by
      • Efficient, effective, proactive use of ITS technology
      • Improved use of real-time data sharing
      • Implementing demand management strategies


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Missing Integration
  • Institutional Integration
    • Lack of operational capability and technology that supports cross network distribution of responsibilities and sharing of control
  • Operational Integration
    • Lack of integrated cross network operational strategies and analysis capabilities
  • Technical Integration
    • Lack of cross network device-to-device data, communication, and procedure integration
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ICM Program Plan
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Phase 1 – Foundational Research
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Phase 1 Major Activities
  • Program Plan and Roadmap
    • Initial available for review – www.itsa.org/icm.html
  • Stakeholder Involvement
    • Working group mtg. held 12-15-04
    • Working group mtgs.(3) and workshops (2) planned
      • April,June, and August
  • RFI to gather information on corridor operations strategies
    • FedBiz Opps – Feb 16 2005
  • Generic ICM Concept of Operations
    • Draft end of June
  • Early Development Feasibility assessment to be completed end of July





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Summary
  • Corridors and Integrated Corridor Management
  • Vision and Challenges
  • ICM Program
  • Phase 1 Major Activities
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More Information
  • ITSA Web page www.itsa.org/icm.html


  • Point of Contact
    • John Harding, Co-Program Manager
      • (202) 366-0640


  • Request for Information (RFI)
    • Operations Web site – Current News
      • ISSUANCE OF REQUEST FOR INFORMATION CONCERNING TRANSPORTATION CORRIDOR OPERATIONS
      • http://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/