Caltrans District 12

ITS Status

Morteza Fahrtash, Ph.D., P.E., PMP

TMC Manager

Presented to:

ASCE Continuing Education Seminar

Orange County Branch

Transportation Technical Group

11/13/2015

ORANGE COUNTY

3,139,000 Population,

292 Centerline Miles,

2,124 Lane Miles,

240 Lane Miles of HOV,

50 Centerline Miles of Toll Road,

12.85 Billion AVMT (Avg. Vehicle Mile Traveled,)

5% of AVMT is Truck Travel,

60,000 Vehicle Hour of Delay per Day (<35 mph.)

2020CONGESTION

Existing Capacity

YEAR 2020

Almost 250,000 jobs will be added (16%)

The population will grow by nearly 400,000 people (13%)

Nearly 87,000 new homes will be built (9%)

Vehicle miles traveled will increase by 10% on freeways

Peak travel speeds will reduce 10%

Average commute time will increase almost 20%

Operational Objectives

Improve safety and mobility

Reduce congestion and manage demand

Provide information to motorists

Share information with stakeholders

Challenges of Meeting Objectives

- Congestion

- Growth in demand

- Daily delay

- Limited funding

Why ITS Strategies?

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Large Capital

Expansion

Operational

Improvements

Transportation

Management

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B/C

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High

Low

COMPUTER

ROOM

TMC FUNCTION

Information hub that collects transportation data

Emergency notification dissemination

Identify, Verify and Respond to Incidents

Manage Congestion

Event Management

TMC FUNCTION

DIAGRAM

511, RIITS, PeMS

HAR

Ramp Metering System

• Relieve Congestion

• Breaks up platoons

• Reduces Freeway queue

• Improve merging and weaving

• Improve speeds during congestion

• Special Events / Event Management

ATMSAdvanced

Transportation

Management

System

(Central Software)

TMC MONTHLY ACTIVITIES SNAPSHOT

351 Construction Closures,

152 Maintenance Closures,

1,312 Accidents Monitored,

3,846 Traffic Hazards Monitored,

224 CMS activated (4931 hours),

67 Sig-Alert Activated,

6 TMT Responses.

SSP Sec. 86-1.06BMaintaining Existing Traffic Management System

Elements During Construction

Mort Fahrtash, PhD, PE

Senior Transportation Engineer

Caltrans District12 TMC

(949) 279-9092

Mobile TMC at ICC

TMCPE Application

CCTV Camera IP Based Comm./ Control

ATMS 5.0 Upgrade

CMS Diagnostics

Field Detection System Update

Arterial Detection

Self Powered Wireless

Blue Tooth technologies

Radio Frequency Identification tags (RFID)

Radar systems

2070 Controller

Share with Partners

CCTV Camera Interoperability

Automated Incident Detection

Traditional

Approach to

Managing

Transportation

Predict future (long

range) traffic volumes

Fund major capital

projects to provide

additional capacity

Addresses 45% of the

congestion problem

Difficult to provide new

capacity

Transportation System Management and Operations(TSMO)

Congestion

New Approach to

Managing Transportation

Orange County Connected Corridors (ICM) Focus