IMPLEMENTATION PLAN FOR THE TRUCKEE MEADOWS SIGNAL SYSTEM UPGRADE

An implementation plan (IP) is a comprehensive document that is prepared at the end of a feasibility analysis for a traffic system. This could be a traditional traffic signal control system, a surveillance system, a traffic management system, or a freeway management system. The feasibility analysis is the first step in analyzing and defining alternative methods in which the subject system could be structured and acquired. The IP gathers all of the information pertinent to the decision processes and analytical exercises performed during the feasibility analysis and extends those findings with discussions of funding and staffing and staging. The IP is intended to be a living document such that the entities would keep it updated during the evolution of the system installation. The undertaking of any federally funded project involving the acquisition, implementation, and subsequent operation of a new or upgraded system now triggers the requirement that an IP be prepared and approved by both the Federal Highway Administration and the entities/agencies that are seeking to acquire and subsequently operate the system. This paper describes this new regulation, both from the abstract and specific viewpoints. A current example of the report prepared for one such traffic control system project is used to illuminate the regulation.

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

  Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)

  Washington, DC  United States 
• Authors:
  • GRAYSON, G
  • CHRISTOPHERSON, P
  • Novak, G
• 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: 21p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Advanced traffic management systems; Feasibility analysis; Freeway management systems; Implementation; Planning; Regulations; Surveillance; Traffic engineering; Traffic signal control systems; Traffic signals; Transportation planning
• Identifier Terms: U.S. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject Areas: Highways; Law; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Research; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00770347
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Publication No. CD-006
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 25 1999 12:00AM