Abstract
MassDOT is pursuing an innovative business model that provides real time travel time information to the public using dedicated highway signs covering over 700 miles of state highway and encompassing the entire metropolitan Boston area. This investment in infrastructure means that MassDOT owns and archives these data, maintains and controls their quality, and freely provides them to third party developers in real time. This business model differs from all other state Departments of Transportation (DOT) around the United States that currently purchase travel time data from private companies. The development and operation of this Real Time Traffic Management (RTTM) system has resulted in a shift towards new measures of system performance and has triggered the production of new strategies for multi-modal transportation system management—all in a manner directly supportive of emerging trends: open public data, big data and the development of smart cities.
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The authors would like to acknowledge the contributions and support of the following individuals without whom the success of this project would not be possible:
Jerry Allen, Former MassDOT Chief of Highway Operations; Leonard Walsh, Current MassDOT Chief of Highway Operations; Richard Davey, Former Secretary of Transportation; Frank DePaola, Former MassDOT Division Administrator and Current General Manager of MBTA; Rachel Bain, MassDOT Assistant Secretary for Performance Management & Innovation; Marjorie Weinberger, MassDOT Legal Counsel; Promise Otaluka, ITS Engineer, FHWA Division Office Cambridge; Firas Said, Lead Systems Engineer, KCUS; Rebecca Morgan, Formerly of KCUS; Chris Costello, Jacobs Engineering; Michelle Boucher, former MassDOT Director of ITS; Neil Boudreau, MassDOT State Traffic Engineer; Steve Timmins, MassDOT Highway Signing Engineer; Jared Kadich, ITS Research Analyst, MassDOT; Ken Charlton, MassDOT Resident Engineer for Construction; Marco Pereira, Senior ITS Engineer, MassDOT; Cassandra Asvestas, MassDOT Assistant Resident Engineer.
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Bond, R., Kanaan, A. (2015). MassDOT Real Time Traffic Management System. In: Geertman, S., Ferreira, Jr., J., Goodspeed, R., Stillwell, J. (eds) Planning Support Systems and Smart Cities. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18368-8_25
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