ITS Strategic Planning: A New Era

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ITS Strategic Planning Offices located throughout
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• Vision of ITS in the future as seen

by the stakeholders
• Strategies have evolved
• System Performance drives
technology
• Emerging technologies offer
significant benefits
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• Is… • Is not…
• An integrated program • A project

• Performance-based • ITS only

• Planning to Construction to O&M • O&M only

• Multi-modal • Auto centric

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• Aligning Management Strategies

• Operations is what we do

• ITS is the technology that supports the

operations
Developing Foundational
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• Architecture
• Framework to guide planning and interoperable
deployment of ITS

• Standards
• Define interfaces within architectures to enable
interoperability and support efficient implementation

• ITS Regional Architecture (Arc-IT)

• Streamlines Systems Engineering process
• RAD-IT, SET-IT Tools
Balancing Interoperability
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• Embracing new technology while

supporting existing systems
• Planning solutions that account
for phased implementation
• Infrastructure in place for decades

• Equipment obsolescence

• Networks, not boundaries

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• Systemic approach

• ITS and non-ITS

• High impact in the region

• Make better informed decisions

• Higher return on investment

Case Study - CAMPO Offices located throughout
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Case Study - CAMPO Offices located throughout
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What have we learned? Offices located throughout
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What have we learned? Offices located throughout
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• New Concepts being presented to Executive Level decision makers

• Decision Makers are looking for concrete actions and accountability
• With the span of knowledge and vision, the challenge is to tie
everything together.
• “Think outside the DOT”
• ITS Strategic and Deployment Plans are not part of the TSMO Plan
• Operations is what we do, ITS is the technology that supports the operations
• Should be in alignment
• Some ITS Strategic Plans inform the TSMO planning process, while
some TSMO plans set the stage for ITS strategic planning and
deployment.
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Questions
 Cheryl Lowrance | clowrance@vhb.com | 571.389.8134

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