Traffic Signal Academy: Enhancing Transportation Innovation in Chattanooga
Join the Traffic Signal Academy in Chattanooga to learn about traffic signal management and operations, explore resources, and collaborate with industry partners. Gain insights into state-of-the-practice maintenance and safety activities.
Traffic Signal Academy: Enhancing Transportation Innovation in Chattanooga
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Workforce Education MODULE 4 Regional Operations Forum Transportation Systems Management & Operations (TSMO) Chattanooga, TN April 2 - 4, 2019
Session Overview • Traffic Signal Academy • Brief History • Resources • Objectives • Curriculum • Partnerships • Future • State Transportation Innovation Council Incentive • Tasks • Traffic Signal Asset Management System • Objectives / Tasks • Accelerating Safety Activities Program (ASAP)
Traffic Signal Academy – Brief History • Housed at the University of Tennessee • Center for Transportation Research (CTR) and • National Transportation Research Center (NTRC) • 1st class in 2012 • TN (Memphis, Jackson, Nashville, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Kingsport, Bristol) and on demand • 1,500 attendees • 22 States (AL, AR, AZ, CO, GA, IL, KS, KY, MD, MI, MO, MS, NC, NY, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, WI, WV) • Canada, South Africa • 40+ Consulting Firms • Agencies: Federal, State, County, City and Towns • Listed as a source of training on FHWA Arterial Management Program
Traffic Signal Academy – Resources VISSIM Virtual Controller Simulation
Traffic Signal Academy – Resources City of Cleveland TN Automated Traffic Signal Performance Measures System
Traffic Signal Academy – Objectives • Provide comprehensive traffic signal training to local agencies; • Go beyond the classroom, serving as a point of technical expertise to local agencies; • Foster technology transfer;
Traffic Signal Academy – Objectives • Learn about local agencies needs; • Improve state-of-the-practice traffic • signal maintenance procedures in the • State of Tennessee; • Keep an “eye” for MUTCD compliance!
Traffic Signal Academy – Objectives • Train to reduce agency liability! • Safety!
Traffic Signal Academy – Curriculum • Day 1 – MUTCD and Signalized Intersections (6hr) • Day 2 – Signal Timing (6hr) • Day 3 – Detection and Advanced Operations (6hr) • Day 4 – Traffic Signal Installation and Maintenance (6hr) • Day 5 – Traffic Signal Controller Programming (6hr) • Day 6 – Traffic Signal Systems in Oversaturated Conditions (3hr)
Traffic Signal Academy – Partnerships • TN Traffic Signal Users Group – TTSUG • FHWA TN Office and FHWA Resources Center • Institute for Transportation Engineers – ITE • TRB Traffic Signal Systems Committee
Traffic Signal Academy – Partnerships • Vendors
Traffic Signal Academy – Future • Development of online classes; • Peer review of current curriculum; • Equip an intersection / corridor for educational purpose; • Continue to reach out to local agencies.
State Transportation Innovation Council Incentive • Collaboration • Tasks • 1 – Analysis of Training Needs • Gap Analysis skills and competencies • Surveys, stakeholders interviews • 2 – Lessons Learned from ASCT (Adaptive Signal Control Technology) in Tennessee • Obstacles to implementation • Functional status • Equipment requirements • Costs • Operations and maintenance issues
State Transportation Innovation Council Incentive • Tasks • 3 – Development of Training to Facilitate Implementation of Innovations • MODULE 1 – Automated Traffic Signal Performance Measures (2hr) • MODULE 2 – Use of Crowdsourcing to Advance Operations (2hr) • MODULE 3 – Getting your Agency Workforce Ready for Innovations (4hr) • Focus on findings from Task 1 including a map of the necessary skills to manage and operate the infrastructure of smart cities, data management principles, fundamental knowledge on communications, DSRC devices, and/or additional informational technology topics to be determined.
Traffic Signal Asset Management Systems (TSAMS) • Objectives • Help smaller local agencies catalog traffic signal infrastructure using a web-based database. • Help local agencies document maintenance activities. • Provide TDOT the state-of-the-practice of traffic signal infrastructure in Tennessee. • Tasks • Determine agencies’ current practices; • Develop the web-based database; • Pilot a local agency; • Inventory repository; • Training, outreach and assistance.
Accelerating Safety Activities Program (ASAP) • Objective • Provide information on the use of the Leading • Pedestrian Interval in locations where crosswalk • pedestrian traffic is in conflict with right-turning • vehicular traffic. • Provide informational material on the importance of proper timing of the Clearance Intervals. • Tasks • Hold 5 training sessions throughout the State (3hr) • Develop and distribute printed material on educational info (600 double sided colored informational card for LPI and for CI); • Develop video content for educational material.
Upcoming Events Accelerating Safety Activities Program (ASAP) Register at: http://ttap.utk.edu/training/course-calendar.php
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