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After you build the railroad...

DA/SD Regional Meeting Dr. Christine Johnson Director, ITS Joint Program Office Program Manager, FHWA Operations June 8 , 1999 Baltimore, Maryland. After you build the railroad. …Or shopping center …Or airport… Then what?. Option 1 Option 2. Sell it Move on. Operate it

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After you build the railroad...

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  1. DA/SDRegional MeetingDr. Christine JohnsonDirector, ITS Joint Program OfficeProgram Manager, FHWA OperationsJune 8, 1999Baltimore, Maryland

  2. After you build the railroad... …Or shopping center …Or airport… Then what?

  3. Option 1Option 2 • Sell it • Move on • Operate it • Deal with the customers

  4. Constructinga Railroad Vs. Runninga Railroad • Who do you hire? • Who are the partners and allies? • What kind of financing? • Who are the customers? • What is success?

  5. We are expanding the mission of FHWA From constructing the infrastructure... …to operating it safely and efficiently while enhancing and protecting the natural and human environments.

  6. So What is Operations Anyway? Access Management HOT Lanes ITS Ride Sharing Work Zones Weather Response HazMat Traffic Signs HOV Lanes Emergency Response Incident Management Size and Weight Congestion Management MUTCD Border Crossings

  7. Program Manager and ITS JPO Director ITS Joint Program Office (Jeff Paniati) We’ve Organized it... DOT-wide ITS Coordination IVI Standards Architecture Evaluation Operations Technology Services (John MacGowan) Freight Management and Operations (Gary Maring) Transportation Operations (Don Steinke) Travel Management (Vacant) Safety and mobility in construction and maintenance operations Weather initiative MUTCD Emergency preparedness • ITS deployment • HOV • Operations planning guidelines • Congestion management • Value pricing • Highway capacity analysis Size and weight enforcement Border crossings National Freight Partnership Multi-state freight corridor development NHS connectors Intermodal investment framework Strategic planning Communications and outreach Legislative coordination RD&T coordination Policy coordination Training support and University programs

  8. What Ties it together? What IS Operations Really? • Managing • Transportation Resources • Under Varying Conditions • To Deliver Transportation Services • To Customers Driven by Performance Not Problem Solving; Not Projects

  9. How does ITS fit? The Underlying Enabling Infrastructure • For sensing varying conditions • For measuring performance • For responding • For communicating with the customer • For tracking • For pricing • For regulating For Operating the Surface Transportation System

  10. Managing • Traffic control • Parking availability • Pricing • Information • Alternative routing • Demand management • Emergency response

  11. Transportation Resources • Freeways, roads, streets • Tracks • Parking • Vehicles: Cars, buses, ambulances, etc. • Emergency responders • Control and response equipment • Communications equipment

  12. Customer Commuters Tourists Sports fans Shoppers Shippers What do Customers Want? Expectation • Safe, fast, reliable • Interesting, user friendly • Fast, organized • Yellow Pages, navigation • Predictable

  13. Varying Conditions • Weather • Events • Incidents • Surge loads

  14. But how do you manage seamlessly? • Parking lot operators • Private cars • Ambulances • Streets • Freeways • Buses With such different owners and operators?

  15. What We’re Doing This Year... • ITS deployment • Reducing delay in construction zones • Rewriting the MUTCD • Improving weather response • NHS intermodal connections • HOV/HOT guidelines • Access management guidelines • Laying foundation for operations mission

  16. ITS Deployment Task Force Mission: Transfer leadership to field Focus: • Skill building • Service plans • Architecture policy • Standards

  17. Reducing Delay inConstruction Zones • Packaging best practices for: • Reducing frequency of workzones • Reducing length of construction time • Reducing amount of traffic in workzones • Developing a research agenda

  18. Laying the Foundations for an Operations Mission • Operations Council • Measurement • Benchmarking the state-of-practice and state-of-art • Initiating a national dialogue

  19. FHWA Made an Important Choice-- To be in the Operations Business • Help us shape and define that mission. • Tell us how we can support you.

  20. Who are you Going to Call?

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