Achieving Integrated Management on the Schuylkill Expressway Corridor in Southeastern Pennsylvania

In November 2004, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, along with numerous regional stakeholders approved and accepted the Schuylkill Expressway Corridor Transportation Systems Management Strategic Deployment Plan (SECTSM). The plan laid the framework for the implementation of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) infrastructure as well as policies and procedures for coordination between stakeholders. The plan’s goal was to facilitate more effective management of one of the region’s most heavily traveled and congested corridors across multiple municipal and disciplinary boundaries. Over the following five years, numerous projects were undertaken to meet these goals including the largest expressway ITS project in the Commonwealth, the implementation of ITS and signal coordination along arterial diversion routes, standardization of ramp signage, implementation of innovative incident management strategies, and the installation of a high speed communications network to better facilitate traffic management and agency-to-agency coordination.

• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

  1100 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor
  Washington, DC  United States  20036
• Authors:
  • DePan, Brian J
  • Ruit, Jambala Jay
• Conference:
  • ITS America 20th Annual Meeting & Exposition
  • Location: Houston TX, United States
  • Date: 2010-5-3 to 2010-5-5
• Publication Date: 2010

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Figures; Photos;
• Pagination: 13p
• Monograph Title: ITS America 20th Annual Meeting & Exposition

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Arterial highways; Communication systems; Coordination; Highway traffic control; Intelligent transportation systems; Regional transportation; Strategic planning; Traffic signal control systems
• Uncontrolled Terms: Schuylkill county
• Geographic Terms: Pennsylvania
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01342795
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 23 2011 9:07AM