What it means to work ‘better’ and ‘together’

2. Functions that can’t be done alone. Need cooperation and collaboration Regional Functions Done by local agency with the region in mind Local/Regional Functions Functions we already need to do Local Functions What it means to work ‘better’ and ‘together’

3. Local/Regional Local Regional 2003 2006 2008

4. Making the Concept Work Takes a Regional Partnership • Local leaders have: • Identified the issues • Identified the local and local/regional gaps • Agreed on regional approaches to regional issues • Agreed on specific agency responsibilities • Existing committees and groups can lead some of the coordination needs • Additional focus areas identified for specific operational issues • Champions will provide ongoing leadership

5. Top Transportation Operations Initiatives for the Region • Traffic engineering collaboration and coordination • Reducing delays caused by incidents • Sharing resources among agencies • Sharing information between centers • Improving traveler information • Supporting additional operational initiatives

6. Regional Traffic Engineering Collaboration: • Develop traffic signal timing plans in a consistent way valley-wide • Adjust timing of city signals to better respond to conditions • Coordinate on cross-border traffic signal timing • RESULT: Improved mobility and travel times

7. Improved Incident Management on Freeways and Major Streets: • Common incident management practices • Educate motorists about Quick Clearance Laws • Share information among emergency services and transportation agencies • Improve coordination on-scene • Safely position emergency vehicles at incident scenes • Expand freeway incident management to major streets • RESULT: Reduced delay caused by incidents and improved safety

8. Sharing Resources Among Agencies to: • Know what staff, facilities, and technical resources are available where and when • Combine the maintenance of local and regional traffic systems • Provide consistent training to staff throughout the region • RESULT: Benefiting from regional resources and reduced costs for improved local and regional performance

9. Information Sharing and Coordination: • Improve freeway/arterial coordination • Establish a valley-wide standard for emergency vehicle signal pre-emption • Connect emergency and transportation centers • Provide after hours monitoring services for signals and other equipment • Notify multiple agencies of major events that could impact traffic • RESULT: Standard practices, improved connectivity, information-focused approach to regional operations

10. Improving Travel Information: • Current and future conditions information on major streets, especially cross-town corridors • Make transit information easily available • Increase awareness of the availability and value of good travel information • RESULT: Travelers have access to the information they need from multiple sources

11. Other Ways We Will Improve Regional Operations: • Ramp metering • Integrate freeway incident response and service patrols • Priority for transit at certain signals • Collect, store and use data for better regional planning • Agree to policies and procedures to support recommended improvements and interagency coordination

12. Strategies Will be Measured and Monitored • Identified where we want to be in 3 years…in 5 years • Goals established for freeways, streets, transit, incident management, emergency management, and travel information • Realistic goals and measures • Focus on broad improvements affecting more than one city or agency • Review what works and what still needs work • Results will be evaluated and lessons incorporated

13. Manage our systems We can have a safe, reliable, efficient, and seamless surface transportation system Get funding Roles and responsibilities A safe, reliable, efficient, and seamless Coordinate and share information surface transportation system for the Policies, procedures and practices MAG Region. Measure performance Staff resources

14. For more information about the MAG Regional Concept of Transportation Operations contact: Dr. Sarath Joshua, Ph.D., P.E. ITS and Transportation Safety Program Manager (602) 254-6300 Sjoshua@mag.maricopa.gov To view RCTO project information and deliverables, visit the MAG web site atwww.mag.maricopa.gov

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16. Inventory of Policies, Procedures and Practices • Identify existing and needed policies, procedures and practices for operations components • 14 state and local agencies • Looked for overlaps and gaps • Summarized in a “report card”

17. Operational Components Focused On: • Variable Message Signs • Closed-Circuit Television Cameras • Ramp Metering • Freeway Interchanges • Planned Event Management • Incident Management • Traffic Signal Systems • Emergency Vehicle Preemption • Transit Signal Priority • Highway/Rail Intersections • Data Archiving • Operations Centers

18. Operational Goals for the MAG Region Identified For: • Freeway Mobility • Arterial Mobility • Freeway Incident Management • Freeway-Arterial Interface • Arterial Incident Management • Arterial Operations • Transit Mobility • System Reliability • Multi-Agencies Coordination • Travel Information Provision

19. Measuring Our Performance • 3 year and 5 year goals identified for operational components • Quantifiable performance measures for each goal • MAG has overall responsibility for performance measures program

20. Measuring Our Performance

21. Measuring Our Performance

22. To Achieve Freeway Mobility Goals: • Practices for traffic-responsive ramp metering • Practice for interagency notification of freeway incidents • Policy to improve freeway incident clearance times • Practices for removing disabled transit vehicles off freeways

23. To Achieve Arterial Mobility Goals: • Practices to optimize signals within cities and between cities (cross-border corridors) • Practice of grouping signals in ‘control sections’, and not by jurisdiction • Policy to improve arterial incident/crash clearance times • Practice of assessing coordination every 2 years

24. To Achieve Freeway Incident Management Goals: • Practice of getting better incident information from mobile phone users • Policy to share operations and use of CCTV among agencies • Policies for interagency response to incidents • Policy for ADOT TOC to extract DPS CAD information • Policy for shared operations of state and local VMS • Practice of adjusting signal timing plans during incidents • Practices for improved on-scene coordination • Policy for safe placement of response vehicles at incident scenes • Policy for removing fatalities from accident scenes

25. To Achieve Freeway-Arterial Interface Goals: • Policy for coordinated freeway arterial operations • Policy to coordinate ramp metering with traffic signal systems

26. To Achieve Arterial Incident Management Goals: • Policy to formalize and implement a Regional Arterial Incident Management System • Practice for transit operators to notify transit centers of incidents • Policy for local TMC/TCC to extract filtered incident information from police, sheriff, fire CAD systems • Policy to improve arterial incident/crash clearance times • Policy to adjust signal timing plans during incidents • Policy for regional emergency vehicle preemption system

27. To Achieve Transit Mobility Goal: • Policy for implementing and operating a transit signal priority pilot project (TSP)

28. To Achieve Maintenance and Reliability Goals: • Practice of system preventive maintenance • Practice of using back-up plans for unscheduled system down-time • Practice of notifying maintenance staff immediately of failures

29. To Achieve Multi-agency Coordination Goals: • Policies for sharing center-to-center communications costs • Policy for data and video sharing and dissemination • Policies for after-hours traffic signal operations • Practices of notifying agencies of freeway incidents • Practice of regular meetings among fire, police and EMS

30. To Achieve Travel Information Goals: • Practices for inputting arterial data into HCRS • Practices to collect data from instrumented Smart Corridors • Policy to incorporate transit AVL data into 511 • Policy to post travel times on VMS • Policy to automate extraction of incident data from CAD systems

31. Building on Region’s Established Institutional Framework MAGTRC andITS Committee Regional Traffic Engineering Collaboration Performance Measures Data Archiving Other Local Functions AZTech Executive Committee Incident Management Arterial Incident Management AZTech Operations Committee Shared Maintenance and Resources Center-to-Center Communications Freeway-Arterial Operations Emergency Vehicle Signal Preemption Transit Signal Priority ADOT/DPS GOHS ATRC Freeway Incident Management E and W Valley Traffic Signal Timing GroupsRegional Traffic Engineering Collaboration TMC OperatorsTraffic Management Center Operators ATISTravel Information