DESIGN/BUILD PROCUREMENT OF TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS: LESSONS LEARNED IN SALT LAKE CITY

The Utah Department of Transportation is currently installing $70 million worth of advanced traffic management systems (ATMS) field equipment using design/build procurement. The project consists of full freeway management instrumentation, a fiber optic communication system, surface street variable message signs, surveillance cameras, and traffic signal systems. During the course of the project, many issues, challenges, and opportunities have arisen relating to or as a result of the design/build procurement methodology. This paper describes the Salt Lake ATMS system and outlines the details of the design/build procurement and management strategies used on the project. It also describes the advantages and disadvantages of using such a procurement vehicle for highly technical traffic management systems and lists the lessons learned in Salt Lake City while building a state-of-the-art traffic management system with only a minimal amount of owner oversight of the design/build contractor.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Conference proceedings available only on CD-ROM.
• Corporate Authors:

  Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)

  Washington, DC  United States 
• Authors:
  • Marshall, Peter S
  • Kinnecom, D
• Conference:
  • Transportation Frontiers for the Next Millennium: 69th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Transportation Engineers
  • Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
  • Date: 1999-8-1 to 1999-8-4
• Publication Date: 1999

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 16p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Advanced traffic management systems; Cameras; Communication systems; Construction management; Contractors; Design build; Fiber optics; Freeway management systems; Management; Procurement; State departments of transportation; State of the art; Surveillance; Technological innovations; Traffic signal control systems; Traffic signals; Variable message signs
• Geographic Terms: Salt Lake City (Utah)
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Construction; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I10: Economics and Administration; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00770304
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Publication No. CD-006
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 24 1999 12:00AM