Transportation Management and Operations

Key Issues and Strategies

• Increase Vehicle Occupancy
  • Maintain and expand the Rideshare Program
  • Conduct Vehicle Occupancy Studies to track data and trends
  • HOV Lanes
  • Increase Transit, Multi-modal options
    
    
• Manage Demand and Congestion (congestion management process)
  • Emphasize strategies in Congestion Management System toolbox
  • Ramp metering
  • High-occupancy transit (HOT) / high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes
  • Improve traveler information (leverage private sector communication)
  • Alternative work schedules
  • ITS- (KC Scout, Operation Green Light)
    
    
• Leverage Technology (Intelligent Transportation Systems)
  • KC Scout
  • Operation Green Light
  • Refine regional Intelligent Transportation Systems architecture
    
    
• Incident Management Planning
  • Develop incident management plans
    
    
• Performance Based Concepts
  • Conduct cost/benefit analysis on investment alternatives
  • Compile travel-time data and other system performance-related data
    
    
• Improve Safety
  • Improve traveler iInformation (leverage private sector communication)
  • Develop incident management plans
    
  • ITS- KC Scout