Strategic Deployment Plan - sacog

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Tahoe Gateway ITS Strategic Deployment Plan
Report #1/Report #2
RECOMMENDATIONS FROM DOCUMENT
Provide Regional ITS Program Leadership. This oversight continuance should include regular
meetings of the group, monitoring of ITS implementation progress, coordination with the Caltrans
District 3 Regional TMC, and a responsibility to oversee maintenance of the regional ITS plan and
architecture. In addition the committee will need to be involved in coordination of system
linkages, integration and interoperability issues within the region and with statewide and national
systems, and agreements regarding data sharing with neighboring regions such as the Sierra
Nevada region, Tahoe Basin, California/Oregon Advanced Transportation Systems (COATS) region,
and the San Francisco Bay area.
Mainstream ITS into the Transportation Process. Although many ITS projects are already
included in the process, others will need to be added. In some cases ITS technologies may need to
be incorporated into the planning and programming process as stand alone projects, while more
frequently these deployments can simply be included in the scope of larger transportation
projects that share location or objective.
Implement and Maintain the ITS Plan. In addition to pursuit of implementation of the projects
identified herein, the stakeholder committee should revise this regional ITS strategic plan as
necessary. This could include revisions of top level issues such as program goals or it could focus
on specific issues such as project scoping and scheduling and detailed architecture refinements.
Establish Mechanisms to Coordinate with Adjacent Regions. The approach will need to provide
a method to address the coordination issues on a day to day basis. The approach must provide the
flexibility for responsible individuals to accommodate dynamic and unforeseen issues associated
with traveler information dissemination and systems integration.
Maintain the Regional Architecture. The architecture should remain a valuable tool to aid in
systems integration throughout implementation of the plan and beyond. As ITS elements are
deployed and connections are made enhancing integration, agencies that will be newly impacted
by this integration will need to be contacted to validate the architecture in general and the
elements which represent their involvement in particular. This maintenance oversight effort will
require Committee members to become familiar with the architecture and thereby understand
how changes in the transportation infrastructure impact it.
097860000 SACOG ITS Strategic Deployment Plan
Existing Conditions Summary Report 050105 61 Task 1.1 – ITS Existing Conditions Report
03/15/05