I-35 Smart Work Zone
slide 1: I-35 Smart Work Zone
Kristi Pyle
Kansas Department of Transportation
May 22, 2013
Bettendorf, Iowa
slide 2: Project
- Construction of a new interchange on I-35
- Location: SW of Kansas City, KS
- Smart Work Zone
- Delay Information
- Queue Detection and Advanced Warning
- Variable Speed Limits
- Cameras for Visual Confirmation
- Public Website
- Retain Equipment
- MIST
- Hits the road in two weeks
slide 3: HfL Funding
- Applied May 2011
- Improve safety & reduce congestion
- Crash rates
- Congestion
- User satisfaction
- Notified August 2011, specs complete and funding allocated September 2011
- FAST turn around, FAST decisions
- ITS project tied to construction project
slide 4: DATA
- The main purpose
- Kansas data and use
- Lane Closure Guide
- Incident detection
- The Big Picture re: SWZ Data
- Archive collected data
- Searchable in conjunction with Kansas data
- Managed by someone else ☺
slide 5: Challenges
- Working with the low bidding contractor's low bidding vendor
- Read the specs???
- Actively engaged???
- Verified experience???
- Details…Details…Details
- Time constraints
- VSL algorithms
- Permanent ITS software after the project – MIST
- Logistics after the project
slide 6: Rewards
- Vendor's GREAT programming team and behind-the-scenes product
- Get to keep the equipment
- Work Zone ITS program in Kansas
- Jump Start, maybe by 10 years
- Equipment – each on its own portable trailer
- 18 PCMS
- 6 Cameras
- 8 Variable Speed Limit Signs
- 21 Wavetronix Traffic Sensors
slide 7
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