Step 1 |
Develop Business Case
Document needs and problems
Describe potential solutions
Identify issues and obstacles
Identify benefits and costs
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| Step 2 |
Seek Best Practices
Learn from the deployment experiences of other jurisdictions
- Technologies
- Planning
- Funding
- Contracting
Pursue training opportunities
- Peer-to-Peer
- Site Visits
- Webinars
- Workshops and Conferences
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| Step 3 |
Develop Technology Roadmap
Consider an incremental approach in order to accommodate budget constraints and the availability of information technology resources
Identify technologies in use today that can be leveraged for new functions and new technologies that should be procured to meet needs and solve problems defined in the business case
Account for system and process changes necessary to accommodate new technology solutions, and draw timelines for the deployments
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| Step 4 |
Identify Champions
Seek an agency executive, manager, or leader who will effectively:
- Mobilize support from all key stakeholders, especially stakeholders who hesitate to buy in to new technologies
- Lead efforts to secure funding
- Communicate benefits and lead resolution of issues and obstacles
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| Step 5 |
Build Partnerships
Build a team comprising the State’s enforcement agency and transportation/highway agency
Focus on the mutual benefits of deploying roadside technologies
Nurture the partnership through regular/frequent team meetings, sponsorship of joint projects, and reciprocal input in technology-related decisions
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| Step 6 |
Maximize Funding
Use as many eligible funding sources as possible
Seek Federal-Aid Highway Program (FAHP) funding to deploy WIM systems as part of virtual weigh stations
Seek Federal Commercial Vehicle Information Systems and Networks (CVISN) funding to implement complete virtual weigh stations
FHWA and FMCSA will seek to increase funding provided through the CVISN program (e.g., raising the per State ceiling, extending the program beyond Fiscal Year 2009)
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| Step 7 |
Deploy Technologies
Deploy sequential, integrated investments that contribute to an optimal program. Add to existing roadside enforcement operations new capabilities, for example:
- Deploy traffic monitoring weigh-in-motion (WIM) systems to locate heavy loadings on the network
- Upgrade or build WIM systems for real-time screening
- Install automatic identification technologies to support targeted inspections at fixed weigh stations and virtual weigh stations. In the absence of universal truck identification, it is postulated that license plate readers are the preferable technology
- Adopt progressive intervention methods/tools (e.g., warning letters, company visits, inspections) to target persistent illegal loading or unsafe practices observed through surveillance
- Develop data management systems that support enforcement action (i.e., intervention methods) on noncompliant carriers that cannot be addressed in real-time because of “data overload”
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