Transportation system management and operations
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Transportation system management and operations strategies provide money saving multimodal solutions that relieve congestion, optimize infrastructure investments, promote travel options, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Expert speaks at Metro on transportation system management and operations
Read a Metro news article about a presentation on Sept. 20 by Steve Lockwood, hosted by Metro, the Federal Highway Administration and the Oregon Department of Transportation. The talk focused on low-cost ways to reduce congestion and emissions.
After the morning workshop, staff from across the region involved in transportation system management and operations participated in a workshop to help identify actions needed to improve efforts. The findings can be used as the basis for a regional action plan.
The Regional Transportation System Management and Operations Plan
The Regional TSMO Plan is a road map to guide transportation management solutions for the next 10 years. The plan includes strategies that support many regional transportation goals:
- Improve travel time reliability
- Reduce crashes
- Improve transit on-time arrival
- Reduce travel delay
- Reduce fuel use
- Reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions
Read the TSMO Plan Executive Summary
Intelligent Transportation Systems projects
Dozens of Intelligent Transportation Systems projects have been implemented around the Portland metropolitan area, many of them involving multi-agency coordination. An illustrative set of examples has been captured here in very brief case studies. The Intelligent Transportation Systems project fact sheets listed below illustrate the mobility, safety, and cost-effectiveness potential of investments in transportation technology.
Download the Intelligent Transportation Systems fact sheets below
Learn more about regional transportation safety
Metropolitan mobility the smart way
Prepared by staff at Metro and the City of Portland with contributions by transportation planners and traffic managers in the public and private sectors, as well as Portland State University's Center for Transportation Studies, this brief but enlightening report shows that the region has the power to control congestion before it becomes gridlock. The executive summary and final report are available below.
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Related Documents
- Metropolitan mobility the smart way: Final report 2.7M Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published October 20, 2006
- Metropolitan mobility the smart way: Executive summary 1.3M Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published October 20, 2006
- Metropolitan mobility the smart way: Presentation 2.2M Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published November 21, 2006
- ITS fact sheet: Truck weigh-in-motion 598K Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published November 1, 2006
- ITS fact sheet: Integrated corridor management 991K Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published November 1, 2006
- ITS fact sheet: Advanced incident response 911K Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published November 1, 2006
- ITS fact sheet: Portland State University's ITS lab 127K Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published November 1, 2006
- ITS fact sheet: Airport parking prepayment 697K Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published November 1, 2006
- ITS fact sheet: Freeway ramp meters 157K Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published November 1, 2006
- ITS fact sheet: Road weather information systems 479K Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published November 1, 2006
- ITS fact sheet: Traffic signal coordination 384K Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published November 1, 2006
- ITS fact sheet: Real-time traveler information 333K Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published November 1, 2006
- ITS fact sheet: Truck safety signal 475K Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published November 1, 2006
- Regional TSMO Plan: Final 12.5M Adobe Acrobat PDF
- Executive Summary Regional TSMO Plan 2010 2.3M Adobe Acrobat PDF
- Steve Lockwood presentation on transportation system management and operations. 1.4M Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published September 24, 2012
- TSMO Capability Improvement Workshop Summary 419K Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published October 10, 2012
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Related Internet links
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ODOT's ITS Homepage
(http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/HWY/ITS/)