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ITS PCB All Levels Workshop #1
March 27-28, 2019 | Florida Department of Transportation District 7 in Tampa, Florida
Day 1 Presentation | March 27, 2019
TSMO: What it is and How it Impacts our Future Technology Workforce
Presenter: Anthony Castellone
Presenter’s Org: Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)
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Slide 1: TSMO: What it is and How it Impacts our Future Technology Workforce
[This slide includes a long exposure photo of a roadway at night.]
Slide 2: ITE Transportation Systems Management & Operations Council
Purpose: To share the TSMO Council’s goals and to gain nationwide volunteers to join and contribute to the Executive Committee’s focus areas.
- Kris Milster, Traffic Technology Services, Council Chair
- Yang Tao, City of Madison, WI, Council Vice-Chair
- Anthony Castellone, Pennoni & Associates, Council Secretary
[This slide contains headshot photos of the three men listed above.]
Slide 3: ITE Transportation Systems Management & Operations Council
2019 Focus Areas
- Smart Communities
- Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
- Urban Goods Movement
- Outreach & Work Force Development
[This slide contains an image of the ITE Councils Organizational Chart designed as a puzzle with color-coded, interlocking pieces.]
Slide 4: What is TSMO?
Transportation Systems Management and Operations
Past (challenges) → TSMO (Evolving) → Future
[This slide contains the National Operations Center of Excellence logo.]
Slide 5: What is TSMO?
“Those who don’t know history are [doomed] to repeat it.”
[This slide contains a satirical cartoon highlighting the past mistakes of transportation systems management and operations: a bulldozer leveling a row of homes to make way for an interstate highway.]
Slide 6: What is TSMO? “We cannot build our way out of congestion”
“Study after study about what causes [traffic] jams shows that it is a fallacy to believe that if you add more highway capacity, you get more throughput—in reality, the opposite happens.”
- Jim Hackett, CEO of Ford Mobility Company, Freakanomics Podcast Ep. 357
Slide 7: Past Challenges
- Bottlenecks: 40%
- Traffic Incidents: 25%
- Bad Weather: 15%
- Work Zones: 10%
- Poor Signal Timing: 5%
- Special Events: 5%
[This slide contains to images: (1) the National Operations Center of Excellence logo and (2) a pie chart. The pie chart information is reproduced above.]
Slide 8: TSMO (Evolving)
[This slide is contains three images: (1) a photo of a highway with an overhead dynamic sign system, (2) a photo of a modern traffic management center, and (3) a photo of a traffic backup caused by construction.]
Slide 9: Future
- Data Management
- Database Systems [server/computer icon]
- Master Data and Metadata Management [local area network icon]
- Quality Control [vertical bar graph with a checkmark icon]
- Integration Definition [server connected to computers icon]
- Warehousing [two server towers icon]
- Transformation [line graph atop a vertical bar graph icon]
- Governance [a capitol building icon]
- Architecture [an organizational chart icon]
- The Internet of Everything
- Industrial
- Retail [shopping cart icon]
- Smart City [two buildings icon]
- Digital Health [heart overlaid with a line graph icon]
- Smart Energy [wind turbine icon]
- Transportation [transit bus icon]
- Manufacturing [industrial building icon]
- Insurance Telematics [computer with a cloud icon]
- Smart Agriculture [tractor icon]
- Consumer
- Connected Vehicle [automobile icon]
- Connected Home [house icon]
- Gaming [gaming console icon]
- Public Services [italicized “i” icon]
- Home Security [house overlaid with a lock icon]
- Wearables [watch icon]
[This slide contains two images whose details are reproduced above: (1) a circular pinwheel-like graphic with “Data Management” in the center, surrounded by colored triangles labeled with icons and titles, and (2) a graphic image with “The Internet of Everything” in the center, surrounded by labels with icons and titles.]
Slide 10: So What Does our Future Transportation Technology Workforce Look Like?
[This slide contains a compute-generated image of a six-lane highway with two High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes and a large, informative dynamic message sign.]
Slide 11: (No title)
[This slide contains three images: (1) a photo of a woman working in Arizona Department of Transportation’s Traffic Management Center, (2) a photo of a congested highway edited with all the vehicles marked with three concentric circles to indicate they’re connected, and (3) a photo of a highway with overhead dynamic speed limit signs and a dynamic message sign (DMS) that is displaying “Reduce Speed.”]
Slide 12: Develop your Career: Listen to ITE Podcasts
Smart Communities Series
- Vik Bhide (Tampa, FL)
- Karina Ricks (Pittsburgh, PA)
- Peter Koonce (Portland, OR)
- Jim Dale (Austin, TX)
- Erin Toop & Howaida Hassan (Edmonton, AB, Canada)
- Betsy Price (Fort Worth, TX)
[This slide contains the ITE Talks Transportation logo and the ITE Learning Hub logo.]
Slide 13: Develop your Career: Check out “ITE Quick BITEs”
- Everything But the Data
- All About the Data
- More than Big Cities
- Social Equity
- Public Health
- Forming Start Teams
- Shared Mobility
- How Does a Community Become “Smart”
[This slide contains two images: (1) a banner titled “ITE Smart Communities Quick Bites” and (2) a screenshot of a “ITE Smart Communities Quick Bites” document titled “What is a Smart Community? Everything but the Data.”]
Slide 14: Develop your Career: ITE Community
- Online Community Page
- Discussions
- Blog Posts
- Resources
- Member Engagement
[This slide contains the ITE Community logo.]
Slide 15: Develop your Career: Attend 2019 ITE Annual Meeting
And while you’re there:
- Attend the ITE TSMO Council Meeting to connect with Leadership
[This slide contains the logo for the July 21-24 Austin 19 ITE Annual Meeting and Exhibit.]
Slide 16: Develop your Career: Student Competitions
- TRB ePortfolio competition
- Travel to DC in January
- Opportunity to meet one-on-one with TSMO leaders
- ITSPCB/NOCoE/ITE Transportation Tech Tournament
- Free travel to ITE meeting (Austin, TX in 2019)
- Compete in Shark Tank 6-minute pitch
[This slide contains two images: (1) a photo of poster session participants surrounding their booth at the TRB ePortfolio Competition and (2) a photo of three people in front of a camera being interviewed at the ITSPCB/NOCoE/ITE Transportation Tech Tournament.]
Slide 17: Develop your Career: Get Involved Now—and Later!
Slide 18: Thanks!
Anthony Castellone, PE, PTOE
acastellone@pennoni.com
(770) 594-6209
Kris Milster
ITE TSMO Council Chair
kris.milster@traffictechservices.com
(971) 330-9094
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