To provide ample opportunity for participants to maximize their meeting experience, the seminars are held twice during the meeting. Please see individual seminar
descriptions for dates and times. A separate registration free is required for each seminar module. A maximum of 35 registrants may participate in each module.
Credits: 1.5 PDH/.2 IACET CEU per modules
Registration fee: $50 ITE Member/$75 Nonmember per module.
Introduction to Management
and Operations Seminar
March 23 or 24, 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Instructor: TBD
This seminar will provide an introduction
to operations-focused management of the
transportation system. The workshop will
provide participants entering operations roles
with an understanding of the institutional
structures, service delivery, key elements and
customer-centric culture of an organization
committed to transportation operations.
At the conclusion of the course, participants
should be able to:
- Define transportation operations;
- Distinguish internal and external customers of
transportation operations;
- Describe how organizations are organized
to deliver transportation operations services
to customers;
- Explain the relationship between
transportation operations and intelligent
transportation systems (ITS); and
- Identify the key elements of transportation
operations.
Target audience: Public agency staff and
consultants in traditional traffic engineering/
transportation planning roles who are involved in
transportation operations.
Integrated Corridor Management Workshop
March 23 or 24, 2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Instructor: Dale Thomson, Technical Lead,
Integrated Corridor Management,
U.S. DOT-FHWA, Washington, DC, USA.
This workshop will provide lessons learned
and best practices on developing an integrated
corridor management system concept. The
guidance is based on experience with U.S. DOT
and eight pioneer sites during the initial phase
of an integrated corridor management research
initiative. The workshop will include explanation
of technical concepts, interactive dialogue and
ideas for future engagement.
At the conclusion of the course, participants
should be able to:
- Create concepts of operations and
requirements for integrated corridor
management systems;
- Establish multimodal corridor performance
metrics; and
- Discuss transit and arterial data gaps
and requirements for integrated corridor
management.
Target audience: Transportation operators,
decision makers and system integrators
Active Traffic Management Seminar
March 23 or 24, 4:30 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Instuctor: Bill M. Halkias, Managing Director,
Attikes Diadromes SA, Attica Tollway Operations
Authority, Peanias, Greece
This seminar will focus on active traffic
management operations in Greece. The
international-focused workshop will expand
participants’ knowledge beyond the U.S. context
of transportation operations. Key topics to be
discussed include congestion management
from national and regional perspectives;
communication, information, data and
performance monitoring; traffic management
strategies; managed lane strategies; and
observations from the 2004 Summer Olympics
in Athens, Greece.
At the conclusion of the course, participants
should be able to:
- Identify the organizational arrangements to
address congestion from a national and regional
level;
- Describe the interaction of supporting
communication, information, data and
performance measurement systems;
- Distinguish between specific traffic
management strategies and their role in
addressing congestion; and
- Describe the public, private and concessiontype
approaches to active traffic management.
Target audience: Transportation engineers,
system managers, operators, decision makers
and system integrators.
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