To maintain consistency with the CVO Corridor Study, the information for this project area is derived from the Showcase CVO Corridor Group submittal.
Description:
This project area will provide a traveler information and management system which is tailored to suit the needs of the commercial vehicle operators which do business in the Southern California Priority Corridor. Travel and route information tailored to CVO operation will be sent out using an FM subcarrier or other medium from the multi-regional TMC network. Drivers and dispatchers will receive a message on a vehicle receiver or office receiver when there is unusual traffic congestion or an incident on a route or at a specific facility in which they are interested in traveling. Messages will also be provided on inspection sites, international border crossings ports, and airport facilities. Information will be provided at four Inland Empire trucking terminals/truck stops. Lead participants will include Caltrans, Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG), San Bernardino Associated Governments (SANBAG), Riverside County Transportation Commission (RCTC), California Highway Patrol (CHP), US Customs Service, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), and private commercial carriers.
This project area will also provide for traffic management improvements along the congested I-105 and I-405 freeways that provide access to/from the Los Angeles International airport. Because of current levels of congestion, projected increased truck travel related to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and the complications of airports and ports, this corridor has the opportunity to benefit from the implementation of ITS improvements. ITS technology will be used to provide improved traffic signal efficiency, incident response, and travel information directly supporting increased CVO activities resulting from NAFTA. This project will also provide for the sharing of travel information between border operations personnel, traffic management agencies, CHP, and the trucking industry. The ITS infrastructure will provide the base for improved traffic management of this important transportation corridor. The technology identified and deployed in this corridor could be applied to other commercial vehicle corridors as part of future ITS projects.
This project provides a “home” for projects that cut across the modal and functional boundaries that define the other project areas. It is anticipated that applicable systems and projects will be added to this area as a need for them is identified. Placing systems and projects in this program area makes it easier to view these projects as essential components of the larger regional ITS picture. For example, a communications infrastructure project in this project area can be seen as supporting all other project areas, as opposed to just one or two. It is important to note that significant communications costs are still directly attributed to other systems in other project area,
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and that development of a regional communications infrastructure will most likely not comprise a duplication of communications systems or costs.
Objectives:
Commercial Vehicle Advanced Traveler Management System project will consist of the following components:
• Monitoring of traffic speeds and the existence of any major incidents. This information may be made available for transmission to CVO operators through the Traffic Management Centers in each Caltrans District in Southern California.
• Transmission of CVO traveler information to all commercial vehicle operators and dispatchers with receivers. Voice messages could preempt information when significant congestion or unusual traffic congestion occurs. Operators and dispatchers could specify the receipt of messages for certain areas or routes of interest.
• The travel information would be transmitted through various media consistent with the national ITS architecture to provide value-added services for commercial use.
• Dispatchers and drivers would have access to freeway speed and incident information and could pass this on to operators as necessary.
• Depending on the needs of individual drivers, they may carry any available system components on board their vehicles to provide more detailed levels of information. (This could range from a simple wristwatch indicating the need to contact the dispatcher up to a full on-board computer)
• Installation of a Traveler Information Kiosk at each of four truck stops in the Inland Empire. The kiosks will be connected to the Anaheim Go-Smart System that includes a direct link to the Caltrans District 7 Traffic Management Center via phone/modem lines. Information to be provided at the kiosks will include freeway speed information in the Priority Corridor as well as other traveler information that is of interest and readily available.
• Establishment of a commercial vehicle traffic management information system amongst airport and port operations, personnel, traffic management agencies, CHP, and the trucking industry.
• Enhanced traffic signal control equipment in the LAX and Ports of Los Angeles &
Long Beach Corridors that can be adapted to the special nature of the commercial traffic that uses these Corridors.
• Establishment of an incident response team in the LAX and Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach Corridors that will be set up to handle commercial vehicle incidents in a reduced response time. For example, this response team could
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include a rotator truck to expedite response to truck incidents. This
response team could be coordinated with regional efforts to better handle truck incidents.
• Establishment of a database on the LAX and Ports of Los Angeles & Long Beach Corridors that will provide real-time traffic operating conditions along the I-105 and I-405 Freeway as well as local arterial corridors such as Century Boulevard.
Either as part of this project or in coordination with ATIS activities, provisions will be made to distribute this information to CVO operators and dispatchers.
• Use of commercial vehicles with transmitters as “probes” in the LAX and Ports of Los Angeles & Long Beach Corridors, which will help provide information on the current status of traffic operations.
Projects:
Two projects, as shown in Table 7.35, were submitted in response to the call for projects. The first project focuses on the Commercial Vehicle Operation through the Gateway Cities region of Los Angeles County. High commercial vehicle activities occur through this region due to the connection between Downtown Los Angeles and the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. This project may focus on implementing the necessary infrastructure and system integration to help improve overall operations of commercial vehicles including automated vehicle locating, CCTV monitoring capabilities and other ITS related infrastructure improvement. The second project concentrates on improving commercial vehicle operations along the I-5 freeway between the SR-91 and SR-710. Commercial vehicle operations through this corridor are also extremely high.
ITS infrastructure elements and integration into regional systems are the focus of this project.
TABLE 7.35 CVO PROJECTS
ID Sponsor Project Description Benefits Deployment
Time
Improve traffic flow, reduce air emissions, improve
County I-5 CVO Project
Implementation of ITS
services. N 60 months $7.12M
Note: Deployment Time Frame Definition – N = Near Term (0-5 years) M = Medium Term (5-10 years) L = Long Term (10 + years)
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7.8 PROJECT AREA 5.0 – EMERGENCY