Tennessee DOT SmartWay Update

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Tennessee DOTSmartWay Update

• Presented by
• Don Dahlinger, P.E. TDOT
• September 2006

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Saturday, November 19th, 2005
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Outline of Presentation

• Tennessee SmartWay Strategic Plan
• HELP
• Nashville Projects
• Chattanooga Projects
• I-75 Fog Detection Warning System
• Knoxville Projects
• Memphis Projects
• Rural ITS
• 511

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Incidents

• Crashes
• Construction work zones
• Stalled vehicles, out of fuel
• Debris in the roadway
• Weather - rain, snow, ice, fog
• Special events (ex. UT games, Vandy games)
• Incidents (non-recurring congestion) accounts for
  50-60 of all urban traffic congestion

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HELP PROGRAM

• 523,473 assists since July 1999
• Changed 71,558 tires
• Provided fuel 47,899 times
• Tagged 85,755 abandoned vehicles
• Removed debris 39,992 times
• Provided traffic control 162,116 times
• Provided first aid to 3,283 people
• Relocated vehicles from travel lanes 34,398 times

Nashville ? Knoxville ? Memphis ? Chattanooga
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NASHVILLESMARTWAY SYSTEM
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Overview of Devices
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Nashville Transportation Management Center (TMC)
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Nashville Smartway
Phase 1 I-65 North Corridor
Existing
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Nashville Smartway
Phase 2 I 440
Summer 2007
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Nashville Smartway
Phase 3
Winter 2009
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Go to www.tdot.state.tn.us Select
Cameras. Select City Check Traffic Flow
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Compare these images to the "live" image to the right to determine the direction the camera is pointing.
EAST I-40                                                                                        
WEST I-40                                                                     
 
TDOT Traffic Cameras - I-40 West of Stewart's
Ferry Pike


                                            
Go to www.tdot.state.tn.us Select
Cameras. Select City Check Cameras
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Chattanooga Region

• Regional Architecture complete
• Early Deployment CCTV Project under construction.
  64 cameras covering 50 miles of freeway
• Leased communication to HELP dispatch location
• Construction began Summer 2005 completion
  October 2006
• Future project adds detection, DMS and new TMC

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Chattanooga
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FOG DETECTION WARNING SYSTEM
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Knoxville SmartWay Coverage Area
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Memphis Early Deployment Project

• Focused around the I-40 and I-55 Mississippi
  River Bridges (116,000 ADT)
• Includes 25 CCTV Cameras and 3 DMS
• Communications is all digital microwave wireless
• Construction began August 2004
• Construction Complete June 11, 2005

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Memphis Smartway Project

• Dynamic Message Signs
• 39 additional for total of 42
• CCTV Cameras
• 90 additional for total of 115
• Detectors
• 354 detectors, mostly radar with some video
• Highway Advisory Radio
• Full coverage, approx. 16 units with
  42 HAR Signs
• Completion April 2008

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Tennessee 511

• FEATURES
• One-stop resource for statewide travel and
• road conditions
• Easy-to-remember number
• Easy-to-use voice-activated system
• Information about statewide conditions allows
  
• for trip planning
• Operational Summer 2006

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QUESTIONS?