Linking the Regional ITS Architecture and the Transportation Planning Process

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Linking the Regional ITS Architecture and the
Transportation Planning Process

• ITS Professional Capacity Building Program
• T3 Session
• September 29, 2005

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Todays Presenters

• Mac Lister
• FHWA Resource Center
• Erika Witzke
• Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Council
• Ron Achelpohl
• Mid-America Regional Council

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Discussion Topics

• Experience with
• formally adopting or accepting the regional ITS
  architecture
• tying together the planning process and regional
  ITS architecture development
• how the regional ITS architecture and the
  planning process can help each other
• maintaining and updating the regional ITS
  architecture

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Regional ITS Architectures Connection to the
Transportation Planning Process

• Development of the Regional ITS Architecture is
  in conjunction with the formal transportation
  planning process
• Integrating the RA with the planning process is
  key to meeting the intent of the FHWA Rule and
  FTA Policy
• Local stakeholders must decide how to bring both
  processes together to best serve the region

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Transportation Planning Programming Process
Regional Vision Goals
Alternate Improvement Strategies
Title VI
Budgets
Capital
Operations
Evaluation Prioritization
of Strategies
Feedback
Critical Factors Inputs
Feedback
Air Quality
Public
Development of Long-Range
Involvement
Critical Factors Inputs
Transportation Plan
Development of Transportation
Improvement Program
Economic
Development
Environmental
Project Development
Issues
System Operation
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Transportation Planning and the Project
Implementation Process
Transportation Planning Process
ITS Strategic Planning
Long Range Transportation Plan

• Needs ID
• Regional Integration Planning
• Project Definition

Goals ObjectivesPolicies Projects
State Transportation Improvement Program
ITS Related Project
ITS Project Implementation
Funding
(SE Process)
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Where Can the Regional ITS Architecture be
Applied ?
Transportation Planning Process
Regional ITS Architecture Products
ITS Strategic Planning
Long Range Transportation Plan

• Region description
• Stakeholder identification
• System inventory
• Needs and services
• Operational concept
• Functional requirements
• Interfaces / Information flows
• Maintenance plan
• Agreements
• Standards identification
• Project sequencing

• Needs ID
• Regional Integration Planning
• Project Definition

Goals ObjectivesPolicies Projects
State Transportation Improvement Program
ITS Related Project
ITS Project Implementation
Funding
(SE Process)
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ITS Strategic Planning
Short-Term Projects
ITS Strategic Planning
Med-Term Projects
Long-Term Projects
Regional ITS Architecture can help develop the
ITS strategic plan if it precedes it. It can also
be a part of the ITS strategic plan.
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Using the Regional ITS Architecture for Strategic
Planning
Regional ITS Architecture Products
Transportation Planning Process
Strategic Planning

• Region description
• Stakeholder identification
• System inventory
• Needs and services
• Operational concept
• Functional requirements
• Interfaces / Information flows
• Maintenance plan
• Agreements
• Standards identification
• Project sequencing

Long Range Transportation Plan

• Needs ID
• Regional Integration Planning
• Project Definition

Goals ObjectivesPolicies Projects
ITS Related Project
ITS Project Implementation
Funding
(SE Process)
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Transportation Planning Long-Range
Transportation Plan
Regional Vision Goals
Alternate Improvement Strategies
Title VI
Budgets
Capital
Operations
Evaluation Prioritization
of Strategies
Feedback
Critical Factors Inputs
Feedback
Air Quality
Public
Development of Long-Range
Involvement
Critical Factors Inputs
Transportation Plan
Development of Transportation
Improvement Program
Economic
Development
Environmental
Project Development
Issues
System Operation
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Using the Regional ITS Architecture for LRTP
Regional ITS Architecture Products

• Region description
• Stakeholder identification
• System inventory
• Needs and services
• Operational concept
• Functional requirements
• Interfaces / Information flows
• Maintenance plan
• Agreements
• Standards identification
• Project sequencing

Goals ObjectivesPolicies Projects
ITS Project Implementation
Funding
(SE Process)
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Transportation Planning (S)TIP
Regional Vision Goals
Alternate Improvement Strategies
Title VI
Budgets
Capital
Operations
Evaluation Prioritization
of Strategies
Feedback
Critical Factors Inputs
Feedback
Air Quality
Public
Development of Long-Range
Involvement
Critical Factors Inputs
Transportation Plan
Development of Transportation
Improvement Program
Economic
Development
Environmental
Project Development
Issues
System Operation
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Using the Regional ITS Architecture for (S)TIP
Regional ITS Architecture Products
Transportation Planning Process
ITS Strategic Planning
Long Range Transportation Plan

• Region description
• Stakeholder identification
• System inventory
• Needs and services
• Operational concept
• Functional requirements
• Interfaces / Information flows
• Maintenance plan
• Agreements
• Standards identification
• Project sequencing

• Needs ID
• Regional Integration Planning
• Project Definition

Goals ObjectivesPolicies Projects
(S)TIP
ITS Related Project
ITS Project Implementation
Funding
(SE Process)
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Strengthening the Regional ITS Architecture
Connection to Planning in Your Region

• Formally adopt your Regional ITS Architecture
• Ensure that architecture and integration issues
  have a place in transportation planning
  committees or task forces
• Ensure that the Regional ITS Architecture is
  considered in planning studies
• Maintain and use your Regional ITS Architecture

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Summary

• There is a mutually beneficial relationship
  between transportation planning and RA
  development and use
• Relating the Regional ITS Architecture to
  transportation planning has institutional,
  cooperative, integration and cost benefits
• Each planning process is slightly different, so
  stakeholders must determine the best fit of
  Regional ITS Architecture components to their
  process

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Contact Information

• Mac Lister
• 19900 Governors Drive Suite 301Olympia Fields,
  IL 60461Ph [phone]Fax (708)
  283-3501mac.lister_at_fhwa.dot.gov