The U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) will sponsor a free webinar about the Traffic Incident Management Performance Metrics Adoption Campaign. The webinar will give an overview of the campaign and introduce the national Traffic Incident Management (TIM) Performance Measurement Database. It will also provide a demonstration on how to use the database and present example data and reports from participating metro areas.


The free webinar will take place on Thursday, July 14, 2011, at 1:00 p.m. CST.
 

The Transportation Research Board (TRB) will sponsor the 6th International Visualization in Transportation Symposium from August 20 to 23, 2011, in Chicago. State-of-the-art methods of visualizing transportation information will be the focus of the symposium. The symposium will feature case studies and successful practices of visualization in transportation planning, operation, design, data management, maintenance, and more.

The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) released a report that examines new methods developed to estimate freeway performance measures using data collected through intelligent transportation systems (ITS). The performance measures are being developed as part of a decision support tool to support traffic management operations. The performance measures include travel time estimation, traffic diversion caused by incidents, secondary crashes, mobility impacts caused by incidents, and incident classification.

A report released by the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) explores the development of a new method for quantifying incident-induced travel delays using only volume data collected by traffic sensors in the Puget Sound region. Nearly 50 percent of freeway congestion in metropolitan areas in the U.S. can be attributed to traffic incidents. The ability to accurately quantify the incident-induced delay will allow policy makers and transportation professionals to better understand the real cost associated with traffic incidents, help develop more efficient incident management operation strategies, and develop effective active traffic management systems.

This webcast hosted by Travel Information Services Program Track (TISPTC), part of the I-95 Corridor Coalition, will explore the way outsourced archived probe data is currently being used for performance measurement and planning by transportation professionals at all levels – national, regional, and Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs). Shawn Turner with the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) will discuss lessons learned from the use of private sector speed data for historical performance monitoring. Michael Pack with the University of Maryland Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Laboratory (CATT LAB) will present information regarding a tool developed using data from the I-95 Corridor Coalition Vehicle Probe Project (VPP). Andrew Meese with the Metropolitan Council of Governments will discuss how data from the VPP was used by his agency.
 

To participate in this free webcast, please RSVP to nhrebien@kmjinc.com (or Natalia Hrebien at 610-228-0207) by Monday, November 29, 2010. If you have any questions please contact Bill Stoeckert at 774-207-0367. The webcast will be held on Thursday, December 2, 2010 from noon to 1:30 p.m. CST.