TRB Traffic Signal Systems Committee

Summer Meeting – DoubleTree Hotel, Bloomington, MN

Sunday, July 11^th, 1999 -- BUSINESS MEETING

1:00 PM    Welcome, Introductions, Approval of Minutes

1:15 PM    Task Force/Subcommittee Reports

                              Strategic Plan – Don Dey

                              TRB Paper Review – Larry Head

                              Operations and Maintenance – Bob Desanto

                              Adaptive Signal Control – Don Dey

                              Web Site – Lee Han

                              Manual and Publications – Rick Denny

                              Signal Safety – Bahman Isadmehr

                              Signals System Research Database – Dave Henry

                              Traffic Model Developers – Charlie Wallace

                              Others – E-mail t-urbanik@tamu.edu if you have an agenda item

1:45 PM    FHWA Report – Raj Ghaman and Pam Crenshaw

2:15 PM    Summer Meeting Y2K – Tom Urbanik

2:30 PM    Break

3:00 PM    ATC Reports – Raj Ghaman

                              Controller –Sean Skehan

                              API – Craig Gardner

                              Cabinet – Floyd Workmon

4:30 PM    Adjourn

Monday, July 12^th, 1999 --TRANSIT SIGNAL PRIORITY WORKSHOP

8:30 - 10:00 SESSION 1: Transit Priority –What Do You Want From It?

In this session, the goals and objectives of providing priority to transit vehicles will be discussed from a transit agency and a traffic agency perspective.  Different agencies will be asked to discuss what defines a “successful” implementation. 

· What Does Transit Want -- TBD

· Ron Atherley --What Does Traffic Want and Not Want

· Shahrzad Amiri –Issues Facing a New Implementation 

10:00 - 10:30        BREAK

10:30 - 12:00        SESSION 2: Transit Priority In Action

This session is intended to be a state-of-the-practice review of different transit priority system.  Speakers will be asked to discuss the design and implementation of actual system implemented in the field.  Each speaker will be asked to address specific questions (e.g., Why did you pick the detection technology that you did and what issues did you consider?) in presentation.

· Mark Pitstick – Illinois DOT – Bus Priority

· Sean Skehan  -- City of Los – LRT Priority

· George Serumgard – Minneapolis/St. Paul Metro – Bus Priority

12:00 - 1:00          LUNCH

1:00 - 2:30                        SESSION 3: Transit Priority Standards and Research

This session is intended to provide the committee with an idea of what has been happening in terms of new standard development and algorithm development.

· Ed Seymour – TCIP/NTCIP Transit Signal Priority Standards

· Larry Head – TCRP A-16 Research (algorithm development)

· Kevin Balke – Intelligent Bus Priority Concept

· Juan Morales –Route Pre-emption Research

3:00 – 3:30            BREAK

3:30 – 5:00            SESSION 4: Research Needs -- Roundtable Discussion

This session will be a moderated roundtable discussion that will address the research needs of practitioners dealing with transit signal priority.  Potential discussion items include the following:

· How do you handle installation across multiple jurisdictions?

· How do you marry EMS priority and bus priority systems (technology issues)?

· How do you measure the “benefits” / cost effectiveness of priority systems?

· How do you decide where to install priority systems?

· How do you handle multiple priority requests?

· Algorithm Development/Detection Technologies

Monday, July 12^th, 1999

OPTIONAL 3M TOUR

7:00 PM Depart DoubleTree hotel (transportation provided)

7:20 PM Arrive at 3M Transportation Safety Research Center

                             Site Orientation

                             Priority Control Concepts

                             Transit Applications and Case Studies

                             Priority Control Demos

                             Application Specific Configurations

                             Future Technologies

                             Other Products of Interest

8:40 PM          Depart for hotel

9:00 PM           Return to hotel

Tuesday, July 13th, 1999

LOCAL TOURS – MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM               Bus Priority, SCATS, SCOOT, Ramp Queue Advisory DMS