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ITS University Workshop #4
September 22-23, 2016 | ITS America Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Day 1 Presentation | September 22, 2016

Presenter: Randy Johnson
Presenter's Org: Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT)

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Slide 1: ITS University Workshop

September 22, 2016

Randy Johnson, P.E., PTOE, ACTAR
KC Scout

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[This slide contains a photo showing the view from the center of the backseat of a car looking at the driver and out through the front windshield. Beyond the windshield there is heavy highway traffic. To the right of the steering wheel is a computer screen with the top half showing a line graph and the bottom half showing a map.]

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[This slide contains a screenshot of a bulleted list titled “Transportation Systems Management and Operations” with the words “Use Existing System” written diagonally across the list in red.]

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[This slide contains three photos: (1) the inside of a Traffic Management Center, (2) a roadway dynamic messaging sign with the warning “Stopped traffic past exit 119. 10-20 minute delay,” and (3) a traffic control officer in a vehicle interacting with a computer screen.]

Slide 5: Reliability of the Transportation System

[This slide contains a reproduction of a pie chart titled “Reliability of the Transportation System:” Bottlenecks (40%), Traffic Incidents (25%), Bad Weather (15%), Work Zones (10%), Poor Signal Timing (5%), and Special Events (5%).]

Slide 6: 5 Year Construction Program

[This slide contains a three-dimensional pie chart titled “5 Year Construction Program:” Take Care of Existing System ($3.49, 88%) and New Projects ($0.48, 12%).]

Slide 7: Road to Tomorrow

Prepare MoDOT to integrate 21^st century technologies into our transportation system and services
Enhance MoDOT’s funding stream

[This slide contains a layered, computer-generated image showing an elevated highway in a city.]

Slide 8: Solar Roadways

Produce clean renewable energy for homes, businesses, and electric cars on the roadway
Heating elements to prevent snow and ice accumulation
Panels have microprocessors that allow the panels to communicate with each other, a central control station, and vehicles
LED lights to create lines and signage without paint
Test Site - Historic Route 66 Welcome Center at Conway, MO

[This slide contains an image of a solar roadway in a flat, open landscape. Yellow LED lights are the centerline and white LED lights mark the roadway boundaries and spell the word “slow” in the right lane.]

Slide 9: Truck Platooning

Safety - braking is automatic with virtually zero reaction time compared to human braking
Efficiency - reduces congestion by improving traffic flows
Cleaner - Reduce CO² emissions
Economical - lower fuel consumption means lower fuel costs (approx. 30% of total operating costs of a truck

[This slide contains an image of the interior front cab of a truck, showing the truck driver on the left and a view through the windshield at the highway.]

Slide 10: Smart Highways (MoDOT’s Request for Proposal)

Purpose - Increase road safety, efficiency, and reduce environmental impacts which generate revenue

Examples

Tiny windmills to capture wind from trucks driving by and storing energy for lighting roadway
“Self-healing” concrete designed to produce bacteria to fill cracks
Suite of digital, communication, and information services to MoDOT, motor carriers and other commercial fleet operators and private drivers on a subscription basis

[This slide contains a photo of the St. Louis Arch silhouetted against a deep blue sky; a sign for Interstate 70 West is in the foreground.]

Slide 11: Network/Communications

Basic understanding of terminology (switches, routers, IP addresses, fiber optics, wireless communication (Bluetooth, cellular) etc…

[This slide contains an image of a flowchart showing the relationship between different Network/Communications elements: Traffic Management Center, Transport, Yard, Roadside, and Vehicle. There are four images in a column on the left side of the flowchart: two people looking at computer screens, a clipart picture of a cloud with the words “Core and Aggr” on it, an empty two lane road on an open plain, and an aerial view of a red sedan on a road.]

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Examples:

Capacity analysis
Signal control
Traffic calming
Traffic modeling
Public transportation

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Slide 13: Transportation Planning - Leading the Effort

Needs Assessment
Planning for short and long term goals
System evaluation
Public Policy
Plan Implementation

“How does vehicle to vehicle or infrastructure and autonomous vehicles affect our 25 year plan?

[This slide contains a photo of five people wearing business clothing gathered around a desktop computer.]

Slide 14: To sum it all up…

[This slide contains four postcards with quotations: (1) a chalk drawing of a light bulb and the words “Creativity and Innovation,” (2) a darkened light bulb with the filament lit red and the words “We cannot solve a problem by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. - Albert Einstein,” (3) “Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time. - Bill Gates,” and (4) “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”]

Slide 15: Kansas City Scout

Randy Johnson
email: randy.johnson@moddot.mo.gov
phone: 816-347-2200

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