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VPP Suite User Group
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Meeting Protocols • Questions will be answered at the end of each presentation
• Ask your question verbally
• Give your name and agency before asking your question (at least the first time)
• Keep your phone muted until asking a question or speaking (press *6 to mute/unmute individual phone lines)
• Do not place call “on hold” as your hold music may be heard by the group
• Call 610-662-5569 for difficulties with the web or audio application.
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Please confirm that your line is
muted*6
Thankyou!
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Agenda
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Time Topic Speaker
10:00am to 10:10am Welcome Introduction of new VPP Suite User Group Co-Chairs
George Schoener, I-95 Corridor Coalition, Exec. Director
10:10am to 10:15am Purpose of this Meeting New co-chairs
10:15am to 10:25am VPP Suite Funding Status & Cutoff dates for those states/agencies who are unable to continue funding Michael Pack, UMD CATT Lab
10:25am to 10:45am
Review of VPP Suite Features/Tools/Timeline • New functionality since last meeting • In-progress development efforts• MAP-21 & NPMRDS updates• VMT-UDC changes
Michael Pack, UMD CATT Lab
10:45am to 10:50amWorking Group Update• Establishing new working groups• Introduction of working group leader
Michael Pack, UMD CATT Lab
10:50am to 11:20am Agency Input Session to learn about what is working & what needs some attention All
11:20am to 11:25am Other Issues Michael Pack, CATT Lab
11:25am to 11:30am Next Steps and Meeting Wrap Up George Schoener, I-95 Corridor Coalition, Exec. Director
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Meeting Participants
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# Agency Name(s) # Agency Name(s)
1 Florida DOT Russell Allen 8 MWCOG Andrew Meese
2 Georgia DOT Mark Demidovich 9 North Jersey TPA Keith Miller
3 New Jersey DOT
Bill Kingsland, Amir Ibrahim, Gail Yazersky, Neha Galgali, Sudhir Joshi, Ira Levinton, Simon Nwachukwu, Kelly McVeigh, Jim Hadden
10 Richmond Regional MPO Greta Ryan
4 Rhode Island DOT Dan Herstine, Bill Nordstrom (Jacobs), Deanna Peabody (TranInfo) 11 South Jersey TPO Andrew Tracy
5 Virginia DOT Rose Lawhorne, Ram Venkatanarayana 12 I-95 Corridor
Coalition George Schoener
6 Baltimore Metropolitan Council Ed Stylc, Victor Henry 13 UMD CATT Lab Michael Pack, John Allen
7 DVRPC Jesse Buerk, Zoe Neaderland (and others) 14 KMJ Consulting
(Coalition Support) Karen Jehanian, Joanna Reagle
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Welcome
George SchoenerI-95 Corridor Coalition
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Many Thanks,
John Allen!
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Introduction of new VPP Suite User Group Chairs
• With John Allen joining the CATT Lab, there was a need to fill the vacant User Group chair
• The thought was to fill the position with co-chairs, for more a complete perspective (State/MPO, Planning/Operations, etc.)
• So please welcome:- Kelly Wells (NCDOT)- Jesse Buerk (DVRPC)
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The new co-chairs will create a cohesive synergy
Planning
Traffic Operations
TravelerInformation
Jesse Buerk (DVRPC)
TBD Kelly Wells(NCDOT)
The co-chair’s vision, leadership and guidance will help provide for:
A more comprehensive State &MPO perspective…
that leads to better integration of Planning-Ops-Travel Info needs & considerations…
for improved tools and products.
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VPP Suite User Group Goals
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Use a collaborative approach to expand and improve the use and benefit of the Suite by:
• Addressing User Needs – Assistance with software issues– Detailed explanation/guidance on using the tools
• Addressing Developer Needs– Gain feedback on the usability– Gather requests for additional functionality
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Funding Status and Cutoff DatesReminder: Federal funding expired in Jan. 2015.
On July 1, 2015, the suite will be disabled for agencies that have not worked out a funding plan with the CATT Lab for their 2015 contributions.
States, MPOs, etc. who have already contributed (or worked out a plan) will continue to have unrestricted access.
States/MPOs/users will receive follow-up calls next week to confirm participation.
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Review of VPP Suite Features/Tools/Timeline
Michael L. PackCATT Laboratory
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Topics for Today• Review of VPP Suite Features/Tools/Timeline
- New functionality since the last meeting- In-progress development efforts- MAP-21 &NPMRDS updates- VMT-UDC changes
• Working Group Update - Establishing new working groups- Introduction of working group leader
• Agency Input Session - What’s working/what needs attention
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Bottleneck Ranking – Bottleneck/Event DataBottleneck Ranking now includes traffic event and incident data from RITIS and aligns those events to bottlenecks, with new features added into the Impact Factor table, map and 3 visualization choices
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• Total number of events areshown in red diamonds
• Use zoom to reveal moreevent detail
• Clicking on the greencrosses (areas of multipleevents) opens a detail boxfor that location
Map Bottleneck/Event Detail
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Get an overview-level understanding of the data Scrollable to dig into the details
Time-Table VisualizationCompact View Multi-Screen View
Incident Icons LegendRed — Severe events and incidents Orange — Roadwork Yellow — All other events and incidents
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Time Spirals & Event Icons
Color View Grayscale View
Incident Icons LegendRed — Severe events and incidents Orange — Roadwork Yellow — All other events and incidents
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Events on Trend Maps
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• Improves upon how average speeds are calculated across our tools
• Has the benefit of preserving the relationship between speed and travel time
• Impacts the calculations of the buffer time index, planning time index, user delay cost, and all other performance metrics
• You will need to recreate any previous reports to take advantage of the harmonic mean
Harmonic Mean
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User Documentation
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Tutorials
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Multi-vendor Integration Status• Data downloader is live.
• Users will soon be able tochoose from different datasources for all other tools.
• Will be able to prioritize howthe data is used andpresented
• A fusion option will giveusers the ability to averagethe sources in a number ofways
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Multi-vendor Integration over Multiple Tools
UDC Future Functionality
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Date-filtering Options (in-progress)
All Days, or; Excluding certain days (holidays/custom list), or; Including only certain days
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• Exclude certain days/months, etc.
Date-filtering Options (in-progress)
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MAP-21 Dashboards (Coming Soon)
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The Dashboard Includes MAP-21 Performance Comparisons…
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…and Custom Comparisons
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Reliability Widgets at a State and Geographic Area Level
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NPMRDS Integration• Where appropriate,
NPMRDS data has been integrated into all of the previously mentioned tools
• NPMRDS data produces meaningful results when looking at a month and/or an entire year’s worth of aggregated performance measure data
• The Probe Data Analytics Tools show where gaps exist in the NPMRDS when viewing individual days and/or weeks worth of data
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VMT-UDC Changes
• On-going confusion with “Volume” aggregation
• Working groups have identified a number of improvements/changes
• Moving away from per-person UDC, and switching over to some form of VMT-based measures. Clarifying how volume data is used and presented.
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Working Group Update
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A New Working Group that Emphasizes User Experience
• There is a desire to engage the User Group more intimately in the development of interfaces and end products
• We propose a User Focus Group that will help shape and guide final development
• John Allen (CATT Lab) will lead the effort
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Agency Input SessionFocus on New Features
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Any Other Topics of Interest
Dashboard FunctionalityEvent Data Integration
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MAP-21 Working Group
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Other Issues?
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Next Steps & Meeting Wrap Up
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Next User Group Meeting: July 16, 2015
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Contact InformationGeorge SchoenerI-95 Corridor [email protected]
Joanna ReagleI-95 Corridor Coalition [email protected]
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VPP Suite questions/[email protected]
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Thank You
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