Maryland’s Coordinated Highways Action Response Team
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Maryland’s Coordinated Highways Action Response Team Richard R. Dye, CHART Systems Administrator E-mail: [email protected] “Welcome to the World of Tomorrow!”
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Maryland’sCoordinated Highways Action
Response Team
Richard R. Dye, CHART Systems AdministratorE-mail: [email protected]
“Welcome to the World of Tomorrow!”
OrganizationMaryland Department of Transportation
- Maryland Aviation Administration
- Mass Transit Administration
- Maryland Port Administration
- Motor Vehicle Administration
- State Highway Administration
State Highway Administration
Planning and Engineering AdministrationOperations
7 District Offices
Office of Traffic & Safety Office of Maintenance
Office of Materials Technology
Office of ConstructionOffice of CHART & ITS Development
CHART Focus Areas
Incident ManagementTraffic and Roadway MonitoringTraveler InformationTraffic ManagementEmergency and Weather Event Operations
Washington DC: College Park State Police BarracksBaltimore: Golden Ring State Police BarracksFrederick: The Frederick Law Enforcement Center (Co-located with MSP and County Sheriff’s Office)Mountain Region: La Vale SHA District 6 OfficeSeasonal: Eastern Shore Traffic Ooperations (operating out of the SOC)
CHART Operations Centers – Satellite Traffic Operations Centers
There are a lot of people who will be talking about the far future (which I admit is only 10 years or so in the world of technology.) I was asked to focus on what CHART has concrete plans to do in the future.
A great American sent me an email back in 2006 which said:
“The future of technology, or at least what people won't shut up about, is wireless. You know, things like walkmans, flashlights, and solar calculators”*
I think we have done a little better than that… and there is more to come.
*Do yourself a favor and look this quote up for a great presentation on “technology!”
To know where we are going… we have to look at the building blocks of the path that got us here
CHART Advanced Traffic Management System Software
Field Devices
Software / Network
Share-ability
Artificial Intelligence
1996 2005 2014
From 1996 to 2005 the push was for more permanent Traffic Management Centers and more field devices
CHART Advanced Traffic Management System Software
1996 2005
Field Devices
DMS 25 73CCTV 22 165HAR 4 34Weather Stations 0 46TMCs 4 42 Permanent (State,Local,Private, etc)
But more devices allowed more geographically diverse users so from 2005 to 2012 the push was to be able to share the information and control with other 1st responders
CHART Advanced Traffic Management System Software
2005 2012
Software / Network
Share-ability
Thick Client to Web Based
Alerting and Escalation between TMCs
NTCIP for DMS and
CCTV
Dedicated NTSC Video Viewing to MPEG Routable
Video
Travel Times and changeable Tolls
External Events and Field
Devices from DC and VA
Auto Import of Weather Data into all traffic
events
Replace Racks of Servers with Virtual Server
Farm
Realtime export of Data and
Video
Transcoding of Video to
Multiple Formats
Suggest DMS and HAR usage and message
Auto Build of Video Tours for other 1st Responders
Auto Detect Responders on scene by
AVL data
Since 2012 we have been building in more systems intelligence Ensures more consistent response to the publicAllows more junior operators to be allowed to use the system with less direct supervision
CHART Advanced Traffic Management System Software
2012 2014
Artificial Intelligence
Suggest CCTV to share with other 1st
responders
Create Areas of Responsibility for
Auto Event Notification and
Device Response
Suggest Notification groups
and message
Field Devices
The push for more users and devices continues
CHART Advanced Traffic Management System Software
Now The Future (next 4 years)
DMS 326 ?? (we are building more and getting access to even more from others!)
CCTV 838 ?? (we are building more and getting access to even more from others!)
HAR 34 Probably 0Weather Stations 66 ?? (we are building more and getting access to even more from others!)
TMCs CHART is now a statewide intranet and secure internet application and has over 381 users spread across 91 muli-jurisdictional sites with complete access to all of the CHART system information and capable of event and device control.
Software / Network
Share-ability
High Speed Connectivity to
Real-time backup site
Complete elimination of
Copper Circuits
Fewer physical devices and more mobile devices and
services
More Flexible Software modules and integrated networks are also necessary to continue the growth of users and subsystems
CHART Advanced Traffic Management System Software
The Future (next 4 years)
Overlay Transport Virtualization equipment for
realtime disaster failover
Complete Integration of
ATMS with Central Authentication
More direct import and export from
neighboring agencies
Decision Support for bi-directional
events
Blend State Data with probe-based services for better
travel time information
Better Real-time Queue Estimation
And to keep up with more traffic and fewer experienced operators the systems will have to get smarter
CHART Advanced Traffic Management System Software
The Future (next 4 years)
Artificial Intelligence
More Complete Support for Full Matrix Displays
Real-time Simulation of What will happen if Traffic Control Actions are
Taken
Automated Standard Operating
procedures to direct operator
actions
Coordinated Highways Action Response Team
For more details please go to http://traffic.maryland.gov
