TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT CENTER STANDARDIZATION
M N Nuaimi · Transportation Frontiers for the Next Millennium: 69th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Transportation EngineersInstitute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) · 1999
Eight transportation management centers (TMCs) are in operation throughout the state of California. As the TMCs become interoperable on a regional and statewide basis, there is a strong need for standardization within the TMCs across the state. The TMC Standardization Plan was the result of a 7-month concentrated effort to identify and characterize the districts' TMC standardization issues. It addressed field equipment, communications infrastructure, computer systems and networking architectures, development, and support environments. In addition, traffic operations and activities and applicable national, industry, and Caltrans TMC standards impacted the TMC standardization plan. The plan provides standardization approaches, migration strategies, and committee actions required to satisfy the TMC goals and objectives outlined in the TMC Master Plan (updated December 1997). This plan is designed to lay the foundation for the Transportation Management System (TMS) Specification--a series of documents providing detailed requirements and functionality for the TMS components. The TMC Master Plan is the template for all state-managed TMCs. It established an implementation plan for the statewide TMS that focused on three primary goals: standardize systems, operations, and facilities to ensure cost-effectiveness, uniform functionality statewide, and economies of scale; establish a regionalized structure that will provide an integrated, statewide framework for transportation management; and enhance public and private partnerships that promote multimodal transportation activities and services.