INTERMODAL TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (ITMS)

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INTERMODAL TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
(ITMS)
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ITMS - A Transportation Planning
Tool

• Linda Turnquist - [phone]
• Caltrans Headquarters
• Division of Transportation Planning
• Office of Advanced System
• Planning
• ITMS application developed by
• Booz Allen Hamilton - Consultants

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What Is It?

• Early planning stage Transportation
• Planning Tool
• Decision support system
• Intermodal and multimodal
• Macro scale
• Quick response - runs on desktop
• and laptop computers

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Why Was It Developed?

• Originally mandated under ISTEA
• To improve future mobility by
• improving the ability of decision
• makers to choose intermodal
• transportation projects that will
• result in the greatest economic,
• environmental, and social benefit
• to the state
• Allows cooperative planning

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The ITMS Planning Tool Includes

• Transportation systems
• Intermodal facilities
• Passenger travel
• Existing and forecasted conditions
• Passenger mode-shift analysis
• Performance measures
• Ability to access
• Census data Other relevant data

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ITMS 3 HIGHWAY ROUTES
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Who Maintains It?

• Caltrans Transportation Planning Program
• Passenger demand data from regional agencies,
  where available
• Major portions of modal data from Caltrans
  programs
• Frequency of updates will vary depending upon
  source data availability and funding

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What Are Some Of Its Uses?

• Analyze information about the
• transportation system
• Identify deficiencies
• Propose actions and strategies
• Evaluate and analyze outcomes
• Prepare studies and reports, and
• create maps and graphs

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Continuing Goals

• Provide new tools
• Quicker and easier
• Resulting in lower long-term cost
• User friendly
• Quality as well as quantity

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ITMS Uses ArcView GIS As Its
Organizing Principle

• The power of GIS allowed ITMS to be
• developed
• The goal was to bring powerful data
• to the desktop of the transportation
• planners
• Links databases to spatial maps

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Analytics

• ITMS also includes "canned
• analytical routines to analyze
• different actions and scenarios
• Incorporates Regional Travel
• Demand Model data

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Software Development

• The ITMS is an ArcView
• application
• ArcView must be installed
• Install
• ITMS from the disk

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Application - Graphical User
Interface (GUI)
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Analysis Year Menu Option
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Map Area Menu Option
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ITMS Analysis Steps

• Identify deficiency
• Define action (project)
• Apply action
• Process mode shift
• Evaluate performance

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Deficiency Menu Option
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Action Menu Option
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Evaluation Menu Option
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The ITMS Performance Measures

• Categories
• Mobility
• Financial
• Environmental
• Economic
• Safety
• Fifteen total performance measures

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ITMS Version 3 (Person Movement) Data
Collection

• Increasing networks (more state highways)
• Smaller segmentation links
• Additional airports (four more)
• New horizon years
• 1996
• 2006
• 2016
• 2026

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Goods Movement Module Development

• Goods movement analysis methods are currently
  under development
• Will include analytical capabilities
• The final approved version will be integrated
  into ITMS 3 in late-2002

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How To Get Training In ITMS

• ITMS General User Training is presently a
  five-day course
• Talk to your supervisor and ITMS
• Coordinator
• An ArcView introductory course is a
• pre-requisite to obtaining this training
• It is a two-day course
• Contact your GIS Coordinator to
• enroll

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ITMS Users Group

• Made up of Caltrans District and HQ ITMS
  Coordinators
• Guides future enhancements and updates to ITMS
• Meets quarterly and rotates through districts (as
  host)