Track C

The next generation of an agencies traffic management systems (TMSs) and their operations centers (TMCs) offer agencies the opportunity to improve traffic safety and mobility. To achieve these goals may involve planning and pursuing improvements, enhancing services, or developing a strategic direction charting a path to prepare for and pursue the next generation of an agencies TMSs. This track will explore opportunities agencies may consider to improve the capabilities and performance of their TMSs by taking advantage of new technologies, using innovative methods to enhance services being provided, expanding service areas, actively manage traffic, identifying incidents, and sharing of traffic and roadway condition information.

SESSION 5C Managing Freeway Networks – Traffic Management System Capabilities and Services

Wednesday, July 2 | 13:45 – 15:15
Conference Room: GROUND FLOOR
Traffic management systems are critical resources that offer agencies the potential to improve the safety and mobility of travel on the surface transportation system. TMSs also assist agencies with fulfilling the ever-increasing transportation needs of travelers (e.g., travel times), service providers (e.g., transit, emergency services), other agencies, and the public (e.g., incidents). This session will explore opportunities agencies have pursued to enhance the capabilities of their TMSs to support managing traffic and coordinating with other systems within a travel corridor, country, or between countries.

Moderator: Olga Gonzalez, VP of Marketing, Valerann

Speakers: 

  • Kieren Marsh, ITS Product Manager, Navtech Radar Ltd
    Managing Traffic on Rural Freeway Corridors
  • Matej Vovk, Slovenian Ministry of Infrastructure 
    Managing Traffic on Freeways Countrywide

  • Jan Coetzee, Managing Director, Innovative Transport Solutions (Pty) Ltd / ITS South Africa
    TMS Issues for Consideration with Expanding Service Areas and Increases in Demand

  • Gabriel Jacobson, CEO, Valerann
    Managing network using space technologies and deep data fusion
  • Francesco Oliviero, Director Sales & Marketing Italy, Greece, Malta, and Cyprus, PTV Group

    Transforming Traffic Management for Safer, Smarter Mobility