New York City Department of Transportation Traffic Information Management System (TIMS)

The New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT) routinely collects high volumes of traffic data, serving diverse project and analytical needs. To standardize the methodology of identifying, requesting, collecting, validating and analyzing this data, NYCDOT developed the Traffic Information Management System (TIMS). The initial version of TIMS was designed as an interactive, map-based web application to provide a simplified workflow for both NYCDOT and non-NYCDOT users to query, display and download point data such as Automatic Traffic Recorder (ATRs), Vehicle Classification, Turning Movement, Bicycle, Pedestrian and Spot Speed counts. The TIMS suite also provides a defined procedure to authorized users to request, collect and validate traffic counts, financial officers to ensure funding availability as well as a simplified method of responding to Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests. NYCDOT successfully launched the initial version of TIMS in April 2012. Phase II of TIMS is currently extending the existing application by: • Enhancing the application based on user feedback; • Allowing the application to accessed from both desktop and mobile devices; • Streamlining the traffic count request workflow; • Adding new traffic count types; (corridor and link speeds) • Development of Protocols for Accessing other datasets; and, • Implementing new advanced functionalities to enhance the users experience. TIMS has provided NYCDOT with an advanced application for managing and maintaining all traffic count data used by the department within a secure hosted environment.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADB50 Transportation Planning Applications.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Authors:
  • Rahman, Asheque
  • Marsico, Michael
  • Howard, Kevin
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC
  • Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
• Date: 2014

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 12p
• Monograph Title: TRB 93rd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Information systems; Methodology; Traffic counts; Traffic data
• Identifier Terms: New York City Department of Transportation
• Geographic Terms: New York (New York)
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01520124
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 14-0628
• Files: PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 26 2014 10:13AM