Portland Metro's Transportation System Management and Operations (TSMO) strategies
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary Information
In the Portland metro area, regional partners created a vision for Transportation System Management and Operations (TSMO). Key stakeholders from across the region including public agency staff, transportation operations professionals, and private representatives of the traveling public, convened to develop a regional TSMO plan. Expenditures were identified for capital improvements and investments in maintaining system personnel and promoting services, as well as managing the overall operations for each functional area over a 10 year period from 2010 to 2020. The table below excerpted from the source report shows preliminary cost estimates and associated time frames for regional incident management projects.
Traffic Incident Management Projects
Project |
Time Frame
|
Capital Cost
|
Annual O&M Cost
|
Expand and improve incident management (expanding routes, adding surveillance, establishing target clearance goals and expanding staffing and training) |
1-5 years
|
$2M
|
$200K
|
Expand incident management teams/training |
1-5 years
|
$0
|
$500K
|
Integrate voice and data networks |
1-5 years
|
$10M
|
$500K
|
Upgrade emergency responder geographic information system (GIS) system |
6-10 years
|
$200K
|
$50K
|
Initiate dynamic routing and preemption pilot project |
11+ years
|
$500K
|
$75K
|
Regional Transportation System Management and Operations 2010-2020
See summary tables