Surface Transportation Security and Reliability Model Deployment

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Surface Transportation Security and Reliability
Model Deployment
Keith Jasper, PBSJ
ITS Minnesota Fall Industry Forum

• October 22, 2003

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Topics

• Request for Applications
• iFlorida Program overview
• Security component
• Evaluation
• Future news

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Request for Applications
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Objectives

• To demonstrate the wide variety of operational
  functions that are enabled or enhanced with a
  surface transportation security and reliability
  information system
• Expand and integrate existing data collection and
  monitoring systems
• Collect and share data
• Use the data operationally to improve
  transportation system security, safety,
  reliability and performance
• Where appropriate, distribute the data to the
  traveling public
• Demonstrate todays best practices and innovative
  approaches in the collection, processing, use,
  dissemination, sharing, and archiving of
  transportation information

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Scope and Key Requirements9 Operational
Components

• Metropolitan Area Data and Information Systems
• Statewide Reporting System
• Security of Critical Infrastructure
• Non-Metropolitan Evacuation
• Weather Response
• Multi-Modal Traveler Information
• Data Availability
• Locally-Defined Components
• Cooperation With National Evaluation

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Model Deployment Phases

• Phase 1 Planning and Design
• Completed With 8 Months
• Deliverables
• Concept of Operations
• Requirements Document
• System Design
• Work Plan
• Deployment Plan
• Phase 2 Deployment and Operations
• Deployment Completed Within 2 Years of Start
• Operate for at Least 2 Years After Deployment
• Deliverable
• Final Technical Report

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Program Schedule

• Phase 1 Planning and Design (8 months)
• 1 MAY 03 31 DEC 03
• Phase 2A Deployment and Operations (16 months)
• 1 JAN 04 30 APR 05
• Phase 2B Operations and Maintenance (24 months)
• 1 MAY 05 30 APR 07

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iFlorida Program Overview
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Application Background

• Central Florida Regional Transportation
  Operations Consortiums regional vision
  established in early 2002
• All limited access and 25 principal arterials
  instrumented in five years
• State vision established in 2001-2
• Ten-Year Cost Feasible Plan includes 1B for ITS
• Commitment to ITS on the FIHS
• Stable of institutional arrangements
• Central Florida
• Statewide
• Bottom line
• Request for Application timing was ideal
• Helped us further clarify our operations vision
• Our objectives are congruent with USDOTs

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Why iFlorida?

• Information
• Integration
• Intelligence
• Innovation
• Infostructure
• Information integration for transportation
  through intelligence and innovation

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Our Base Makes iFlorida Possible
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The Finances
Total Project Value Nearly 21M
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The TeamOrganizations

• FDOT D5 in lead, supported by
• Central Florida Transportation Operations
  Consortium
• FDOT ITS Office
• Several other agencies
• Private Partners
• PBSJ Program management
• 3M Equipment discounts
• UCF Grant funding for data warehouse
• UNF Road weather information systems
• Cambridge Systematics Evaluation support
• Boeing Autometric Security monitoring software
• Meteorlogix Road segment weather conditions and
  forecasts

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The Support Public Agencies

• OOCEA
• Orange County
• Volusia County
• City of Orlando
• City of Daytona Beach
• LYNX
• FHP, Troops D and G
• Brevard County
• GOAA
• METROPLAN
• West Melbourne PD
• Florida Division of Emergency Management
• FDOT Motor Carrier Compliance Office
• ITS Florida

• CFL Domestic Security TF
• City of Kissimmee
• St. Cloud Police Department
• Lake County
• CFL Fire Chiefs Association
• Florida Central/Midland/Northern RR
• Florida Space Authority
• Volusia MPO
• Volusia County Sheriff
• Volusia-Flagler Police Chiefs Association
• Brevard MPO
• Kennedy Space Center
• Canaveral Port Authority
• Patrick AFB
• Navy Region Southeast - Jacksonville

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The Support Private Organizations

• AAA Auto Club South
• Orlando Chamber of Commerce
• International Drive Resort Area Chamber of
  Commerce
• Orlando/Orange County Convention and Visitors
  Bureau
• Orange County Convention Center
• Walt Disney World
• Universal Orlando
• SeaWorld
• International Speedway Corporation

• Support for Broadband Wireless Internet
• BellSouth
• Delphi Corporation
• Kivera
• MapInfo
• MetroOne
• Microsoft
• Renaissance Technologies
• Telcontar

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The Elements
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Project Bundles

• Proposal response focused on 9 components with 24
  separate projects
• Individual projects have been bundled to
  support our implementation approach
• Provide logical grouping of projects
• Leverage iFlorida staff skills
• Economies of scale
• Manage procurement process
• Minimize program risk

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iFlorida Project Bundles

• Central Florida Field Component
• Weather
• Probe Vehicle Test Bed
• Security Command and Control
• Data Fusion, ATIS, Sharing Archiving
• Broadband Wireless
• Studies
• Evaluation Support

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Security Component
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Key Themes

• Ideal demonstration locations at least possible
  cost and risk
• Integrated security systems for bridges
• Strengthened capability of region to coordinate
  and respond to a security event

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iFlorida SECURITYProjects

• Security Command and Control
• Traffic Modeling
• LYNX Streaming Video Proof of Concept
• District 5 RTMC Vulnerability Assessment
• Local ComponentEmergency Evacuations

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Security Command and Control

• Boeing/Autometric will provide automated security
  monitoring and control with visual security
  operations console (VSOC)
• Provides photo-realistic model of the bridges, as
  well as their security cameras and alarm sensors.
• VSOC visually fuses sensor alarms with video
  surveillance to decrease response times and
  improve the quality of alarms assessment.

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Security Command and Control

• Selected two high priority bridges as defined by
  FDLE.
• The Fuller Warren Bridge on I-95 serves as a
  bypass route for Jacksonville, the largest city
  in the nation in square miles.
• The S.R. 528 Bennett Causeway Bridge serves the
  NASA - Kennedy Space Center area and is a primary
  evacuation route between the Brevard Space Coast
  and Orlando.

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Security Command and Control

• During a security event, alarms and alerts will
  be sent simultaneously
• Fuller Warren Jacksonville FHP, Troop G FDOT D2
  TMC and FDOT D5 RTMC in Orlando
• Bennett Causeway FDOT D5, Brevard County Traffic
  Operations Center (TOC) Brevard County Emergency
  Operations Center (EOC) and FDOT D5, RTMC.
• Alarms and alerts will trigger an automatic, real
  time digital recording for post event analysis.

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Security Command and Control
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Security Command and ControlStatus

• Security concept is to have FDOT/FDLE determine
  the threats, identify possible scenarios and
  locate the field components to best mitigate.
  Types/location of devices to be determined and
  installed by FDOT.
• Completed initial site visits for both bridges
• Threat analyses completed for both bridges
• Vulnerability assessments to be completed by the
  end of October 2003
• Key team members have applied for access to
  sensitive information
• Scope completed, FDOT Terms and Conditions being
  reviewed by Boeing
• http//www.autometric.com/products/index.cfm?conte
  ntvsoc

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Traffic Modeling

• Uses automated travel time data generated to
  facilitate region-wide application of the Florida
  Reliability Method, the states approach of
  determining roadway facility reliability.
• The current tools used to measure reliability
  will be expanded in scale to accommodate a years
  worth of automated data, from the first year of
  project operation, to obtain reliability measures
  over all covered segments, both limited-access
  and arterials.

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Traffic Modeling

• The positioning of field devices is critical to
  countering threats, just as plans to respond to a
  bridge-related security incident are critical to
  local highway and arterial traffic.
• This will enable the FDOT to further refine and
  synchronize traffic management with public
  safety, emergency management, hospitals, transit,
  and other agencies.
• The use of bridge instrumentation and traffic
  modeling will enable various transportation
  strategies to be tested with live field exercises
  and tabletop exercises.

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Traffic Modeling Status

• Scoping
• Procurement in 2004
• Sole Source award

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LYNX Streaming Video Proof of Concept

• Uses broadband wireless Internet to provide a
  high-speed network.
• Twelve buses will be deployed with security
  cameras.
• Upon activation for security-related reasons by
  the vehicle driver or the command center, these
  buses will provide a live feed from the bus to
  LYNXs command center. Events to be digitally
  recorded.
• The high density I-4 bus route from downtown
  Orlando to the Walt Disney attractions area has
  been selected for this security project.
• This project will demonstrate the compatibility
  of the technology to provide a high-speed
  backbone for security-related video.

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LYNX Streaming Video Proof of Concept
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LYNX Streaming Video Proof of Concept Status

• In development
• Industry Outreach
• Invitation to Negotiate

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District 5 RTMC Vulnerability Assessment

• The FDOT has five operational and six planned
  RTMCs. The RTMCs have multiple functions, all of
  which involve voice, data, and video, as well as
  a communications infrastructure, computer
  equipment, multiple databases, and various
  applications. The primary functions of FDOT RTMCs
  are
• Surveillance and monitoring
• Traffic management
• Incident and event response
• Coordination of FHP and other jurisdictions
• Provision of travel information
• Turnpike Operations, including financial systems

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District 5 RTMC Vulnerability Assessment

• Apply existing FDLE VA process to the FDOT D5
  RTMC to ensure adequate application of security
  safeguards to the building and to communications,
  applications, and systems within the facility.
• This process may then be replicated by FDOT to
  ensure all existing and planned RTMCs meet or
  exceed the guidelines developed.
• Guidelines could be disseminated nationally to
  provide a basis for state and district-level DOT
  usage.

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District 5 RTMC Vulnerability Assessment Status

• Scoping
• Procurement in 2004
• RFP, linked to Daytona study

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Local ComponentEmergency Evacuations

• Coordinates transportation activities necessary
  to support an emergency evacuation, both in terms
  of getting spectators out and public safety and
  law enforcement personnel in.
• Known as the World Center of Racing, the
  Daytona Beach area is engulfed by
• 450,000 to 500,000 visitors for Speedweeks, two
  weeks of racing in February that culminates in
  the Daytona 500
• The Pepsi 400 hosted on July 4 weekend attracts
  over 200,000 visitors
• Many of the visitors during these events stay in
  the speedways infield in motor homes, trailers,
  and tents.

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Local ComponentEmergency Evacuations

• The Speedway recently updated its emergency
  evacuation plan focused internally on getting
  spectators off property and not on the effects
  such an evacuation would have on the
  transportation network.
• Offers little to no reflection upon how
  operations and ITS-supported traffic control
  strategies could positively assist in such an
  evacuation.
• The existing and programmed ITS infrastructure
  near the Speedway offers an ITS-rich
  environment that can be used to support such
  evacuations
• Key transportation agencies of FDOT D5, Volusia
  County, and the City of Daytona Beach all being
  members of the Central Florida Regional
  Transportation Operations Consortium.

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Local ComponentEmergency Evacuations

• The first portion of the proposed project would
  develop and evaluate responses to a variety of
  evacuation scenarios (e.g., a panic mass
  evacuation with spectators in panic, a
  precautionary evacuation with no obvious public
  reason, an evacuation when one or more exits
  cannot be used).
• Simulation modeling and visualization will be
  conducted to support the development of
  coordinated evacuation plans and corresponding
  ITS and transportation operations strategies. The
  potential role of transit providers or other
  means of mass transportation to support
  evacuation will also be investigated.

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Local ComponentEmergency Evacuations

• The second portion of the proposed project will
  review the results of this study with other major
  venue operators in the region.
• Identify common elements regarding planning
  evacuations from these major event venues and the
  role operations and ITS can play in support of
  evacuations and differentiate them from those
  elements that may be unique to the Daytona area.
• Recommended practices that transportation
  agencies nationwide could use to develop better
  relationships with venue operators and to develop
  better overall plans in the unfortunate event
  that an emergency evacuation is necessary.

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Local ComponentEmergency Evacuations Status

• Scoping
• Procurement in 2004
• RFP, linked to RTMC Vulnerability Assessment

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Evaluation
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National Evaluation

• TravTek gave region understanding of national
  evaluation importance
• Florida has established mobility performance
  measures program
• Florida understands role of national evaluation
  in transferring knowledge gained from the model
  deployment

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Local Evaluation

• Support the National Evaluation
• Scoping, dependent on the final scope of the
  National Evaluation
• May focus on Local ComponentEmergency
  Evacuations, and/or Outreach

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Future News
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Program Web Site

• www.iFlorida.net
• Public Access
• Contact information
• Project calendar
• Project description and information
• iFlorida Library
• Private Access
• Password protected
• Working documents
• Project-related data

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Thank You