OREGON DOT'S ATMS INCIDENT MANAGEMENT UPGRADES

The Oregon Department of Transportation undertook a critical review of their incident management program in the Portland Metropolitan area and concluded that certain technical and operational changes were needed to improve daily operations in incident management and to reduce operations and maintenance costs. At the heart of the revamped incident management program was a planned upgrade to the Transport Advanced Transportation Management System. The ATMS is a valuable tool in the overall strategy of highway incident management in the Portland region and its upgrade would provide an excellent return on investment for both incident management effectiveness and maintaining a reasonable level of recurring costs to operate certain automated incident management tools. As part of the planned Release 2 of the ATMS, the AVL and alpha-numeric paging functions are being integrated into the ATMS software, and operator Graphical User Interfaces are being enhanced to provide more data and more efficient data entry capabilities. These upgrades in turn necessitated installing new AVL and Paging subsystems to improve reliability and provide an easier path to integration into the ATMS. The result will be an improved incident management program operated at a lower recurring cost.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Full conference proceedings are available on CD-ROM.
• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

  1100 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor
  Washington, DC  United States  20036
• Authors:
  • Mitchell, D J
  • Gaarsoe, D
  • Churchill, B W
• Conference:
  • At the Crossroads: Integrating Mobility Safety and Security. ITS America 2004, 14th Annual Meeting and Exposition
  • Location: San Antonio, Texas
  • Date: 2004-4-26 to 2004-4-28
• Publication Date: 2004

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: 11p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Advanced traffic management systems; Automatic vehicle location; Cost effectiveness; Data collection; Graphical user interfaces; Incident detection; Incident management; Maintenance; Management; Operations
• Geographic Terms: Oregon; Portland (Oregon)
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00976093
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 8 2004 12:00AM