�NEXT GENERATION OPERATIONS: NITTEC INTEGRATED CORRIDOR MANAGEMENT

DANIEL LUKASIK, VICE PRESIDENT, SALES AND PROJECT DELIVERY

AUTUMN FUTCH, PROJECT COORDINATOR

• Regional Background
• NITTEC Overview
• Project Scope
• System Architecture
• iNET^® Modules
• Decision Support System / Integrated Corridor Management
• Questions

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AGENDA

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NIAGARA REGION BACKGROUND

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• Niagara region is key gateway for trade between the U.S. and Canada via 3 border crossings:
• Peace Bridge
• Lewiston-Queenston Bridge
• Rainbow Bridge
• Provides passage for hundreds of billions of dollars in goods/services annually
• Approx. 140,000 trucks and 1 million passenger vehicles cross the borders each month
• Average delay times: 10+ minutes
• Peak delay times: 50+ mins
• Border crossing, congestion, construction, and crash incidents

Source: NITTEC Annual Report, 2023

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ABOUT NITTEC

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Niagara International Transportation Technology Coalition

Mission: To improve mobility, reliability and safety on the regional bi-national multimodal transportation network through information sharing and coordinated management of operations.

• Established in 1995 with a Federal Mobility Grant
• Multi-Agency Transportation Operations Coalition
• 5 Policy Members, 9 General Members, 30 Affiliate Members
• Transportation Agencies
• Public Safety and Border Enforcement
• Emergency Services and Recovery
• Only Bi-national Coalition of its kind in U.S. / Canada

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NITTEC REGIONAL OPERATION FUNCTIONS

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• Multi-agency Collaboration
• Traveler Information
• Border Traffic Management
• Emergency Management
• Incident Management
• Construction Coordination
• Traffic and Congestion Management
• Weather System Monitoring
• Special Event Planning and Management
• Transportation System Monitoring
• Performance Measures Reporting

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NITTEC ATCMTD PROJECT OBJECTIVE

• Project Objective – The project intended to deploy a multi-agency, technology enabled, integrated regional mobility management system that will enhance safety and mobility across the bi-national region.
• Project Timeline 🡪

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KEY PROJECT GOALS

1. Balance Border Crossing Demand at the border crossings
2. Improving Freight Operations
• Improving truck traveler information
• Improving truck parking management systems
3. Improve Regional Mobility
• Expanding ICM activities
4. Improved Weather Information Dissemination
5. Improve Incident Management
6. Provide for Operational Integration within NFTA and with Regional Smart Mobility
7. Increase Interagency Information Sharing and Collaboration
• Improving multi-agency cooperation
8. Enhanced Data Collection, Fusion Distribution and Archiving (DATA)

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SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE

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ALLROADS (INET™) MODULES

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SYSTEMS ENGINEERING APPROACH

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Agile Development Process – Sprint Cycle

• 21 Sprint Cycles
• 4 Factory Acceptance Tests (5-6 Sprints each)

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HIGH LEVEL SYSTEMS OVERVIEW

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• Real-time Road Weather Information
• International Border Crossing Operations
• Management of Planned and Unplanned Events
• Transit Asset Management and Operations
• Traffic Signal Coordination
• Data Hub & Data Mart to process, fuse, and disseminate data to end users and 3^rd parties
• Decision Support module fed by live regional traffic model to recommend ITS strategies
• Detailed System Engineering Lifecycle process from developing ConOps (2017) to Testing and System Acceptance

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ALLROADS DATA HUB AND DATA MART

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• Data Hub – central clearinghouse for all information that flow into or out of the AllRoads system
• Data Mart – provides access to both AllRoads-generated data and data from external systems; implemented as a REST API and hosts RESTful endpoints

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BORDER CROSSING

Data Source

• BluFax
• Car / Truck delay and travel times

Auto response business rules for generating events based on threshold values

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BORDER CROSSING MONITORING

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WEATHER STATIONS

Data Sources:

• Mesonet / NWS
• DTN road conditions
• 511NY Roadway conditions

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ROAD WEATHER CONDITIONS

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PARKING

Video Analytics using AI/ML technology

Dynamically updates to availability of spaces for each parking lot

Manual override

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TRANSIT

Data Source

• Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA)
• Provides transit route, transit stop, and transit schedule data via GTFS and GTFS-RT feeds

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NFTA TRANSIT MONITORING

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EVENT MANAGEMENT

Unplanned events

• Crashes/incidents
• Weather & Winter weather events
• Border-related events
• CAD events

Planned events

• Roadway roadwork events
• Recurring roadwork events

Data Sources

• Crossroads ATMS
• Waze, NOAA, IIMS

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EVENT MANAGEMENT (RECURRING)

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EVENT MANAGEMENT (CAD INTEGRATION)

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TRAFFIC SIGNALS AND DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM (DSS)

Signal Integration:

• Transparity (Swarco)
• Atms.now

Aimsun Integration

• Online prediction model

DSS Modeling and Simulation

• Prediction data (15, 30, 45, 60 min increments)
• AI-based DSS capable of activation of diversion plans

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ALLROADS ICM COMPONENT

Crossroads

Event generation

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AllRoads

Send events to Aimsun for final recommendation and send over DMS and signal changes

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Aimsun

Simulates events and suggest changes to signals

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ALLROADS ICM SYSTEM

Crossroads

Event generation

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Send events to Aimsun for final recommendation and send over DMS and signal changes

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Simulates events and suggest changes to signals

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ADVANCED REGIONAL MODEL (AIMSUN)

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ICM RESPONSE PLAN EVALUATIONS – DMS

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ICM RESPONSE PLAN EVALUATIONS – SIGNALS

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QUESTIONS?

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Contact Information

Daniel Lukasik Daniel.Lukasik@parsons.com

Autumn Futch Autumn.Futch@parsons.com

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PARSONS OPENS SYSTEMS APPROACH

• Open Architecture – Platform Independent
• Open Interfaces – ITS & IT Standards
• Modular Approach – ITS Functional Modules
• Open Data Management - SQL Standard
• Open Source – Portable Tools & Interfaces
• Open Development - Systems Engineering standards & Agile approach

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ALLROADS SYSTEM FEATURES

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