Hillsborough County, Florida ITS Consultant Services
DKS Associates is currently serving as a consultant to the Hillsborough County Traffic Division, providing assistance with the planning, design, implementation and maintenance of the Countys ITS program. This 3-year multi-million dollar contract has generated work orders to evaluate ITS equipment and technologies; to estimate ITS project costs; to prepare construction plans and documents for installation of new fiber communication lines, traffic signal poles, video detection, video surveillance, variable message signs, a new traffic control center, communication hubs and emergency generators; to obtain needed permits for ITS installations, to assist with ITS system integration; to provide construction oversight on ITS installations and to develop ITS maintenance contract specifications. All of these tasks are performed by DKS staff and our subconsultant team working closely with County staff.

San Francisco Bay Area I-880 Integrated ITS Corridor Management Project
DKS Associates is on the team to define a major Corridor Management Project in the San Francisco Bay Area for the U.S. Department of Transportation. The U.S. Department of Transportation began the Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) Initiative to improve safety and mobility, and to advance the development and deployment of ICM systems throughout the United States. The goal of the initiative is to develop and provide the organizational guidance, operational capabilities, and ITS technical methods needed for effective integrated corridor management. The U.S. DOT will conduct demonstration projects in selected metropolitan corridor networks, using proven and emerging ITS technologies, to increase the effective use of the total corridor capacity. MTC, Caltrans and Alameda County CMA submitted the I-880 Corridor as a demonstration site. The corridor extends from the Bay Bridge to Santa Clara County. The I-880 Corridor has been selected by US DOT as one of the eight sites in the nation for the Stage One consideration. MTC will be contracting with PATH to sub-contract with four consultants (DKS Associates, Kimley Horn, Cambridge Systematics and SMG) to prepare the Concept of Operations Report.

Santa Clara County, Traffic Operation System General Design Consultant (GDC)
DKS Associates was awarded a contract by the County of Santa Clara to provide General Design Consultant services for a major Traffic Operation System upgrade in the heart of Silicon Valley. The project provides fiber optic communication cable to all County-operated traffic signals and ITS equipment along 55 miles of County expressways, and communications to signals operated by 13 Cities on adjacent streets. Included in the project is the design and installation of fixed or moveable CCTV cameras at 150 locations, video detection and system detectors, and upgrades to the hardware and software at the Countys Traffic Operations Center. Construction is scheduled over a five year period, and estimated to cost $25 million. DKS was awarded a contract by the County of Santa Clara to provide General Design Consultant services for a amajor Traffic Operation System upgrade in the heart of Silicon Valley. The project will provide fiber optic communication cable to all County-operated traffic signal and ITS equipment along 55 miles of County expressways, and communications to signals operated by 13 Cities on adjacent streets. Included in the project is the design and installation of fixed or moveable CCTV cameras at 150 locations, video detection and system detectors, and upgrades to the hardware and software at the County's Traffic Operations Center. DKS is responsible for prepareing overall design Plans, Specifications and Estimates (PS&E) for the project. Construction is scheduled over a five year period, and estimated to cost $22 million.

Roseville ITS Master Plan
DKS Associates developed an ITS Master Plan to guide development of ITS over a ten-year time frame, including mainstreaming ITS into City projects, integration with non-engineering stakeholders such as fire department and transit agency, and inclusion of ITS in the Citys impact fee arrangements. The existing traffic management system included QuicNet central signal system and twisted pair cables to most intersections. Key elements of the Master Plan included CCTV, DMS, web-publishing of travel data, traveler information services and transit priority. The strategic planning process included outreach to all nearby local city and county agencies, cooperative agencies such as SACOG, and City of Roseville departments. Substantial integration will be achieved of communications facilities used by the City, emergency services and the local utilities.

Vancouver Area Smart Trek (VAST) ITS Project
DKS prepared the intelligent transportation systems (ITS) plan for Clark County and the City of Vancouver in southwest Washington. The plan was developed with the cooperation of numerous agencies in Southwestern Washington (C-Tran, City of Vancouver, Clark County, WSDOT, City of Camas, and RTC). VAST outlines a 20-year investment strategy for ITS based upon the existing and future needs of the region. The deployment of VAST will be predicated upon an ITS architecture the meets both the needs of the local agencies and is consistent with national ITS architecture. DKS led a multi-agency coordination effort that integrated the needs of all stakeholders in the region, including WSDOT, ODOT and the City of Portland. The objective of the public outreach efforts was to develop a business and operating plan for ITS in southwest Washington. Information regarding the study may be found at http://www.vastrek.org/

Napa Signal Timing and ITS Master Plan
In 2004, the City of Napa upgraded the traffic signal controllers in the city and installed a new Streetwise central signal system manufactured by Naztec, Inc. Since it had been a while since existing signal timings had been updated, the City decided to conduct a signal timing study, focusing on three corridors: Soscol Avenue central, Downtown and Jefferson Street central. A total of 21 traffic signals were re-timed as part of this project. DKS developed a Synchro model, performed detailed field observations and developed the optimized and coordinated signal timing plans. DKS staff entered the new signal timing plans into Streetwise and downloaded the new timings into the Naztec 980 controllers.

Oregon ITS Strategic Plan
As one of the first two ITS early deployment projects funded by the Federal Highway Administration, the Portland ATMS Master Plan Project involved development of a comprehensive strategy for ITS deployment for the next 18 years. This master plan included all of the major ITS elements including Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS), Advanced Traveler Information System (ATIS), and Advanced Public Transportation System (APTS). The ATMS plan included integration of the traffic signal systems into a new freeway operation system, a CCTV system, a ramp meter system, a changeable message sign system, a highway advisory radio system, vehicle detection stations and a communications system. The ATIS plan included centralized operation at the Traffic Management Operation center (TMOC), expanded cellular HELP service, direct links to media, and automatic information dissemination. The APTS plan included AVI for transit priority, bus probes for traffic condition monitoring, and overhaul of the transit communication system. The system architecture was designed to be open and modular, to capture evolving technology in the future. A conceptual TMOC design was also prepared. Jurisdictional coordination was a key to the success of this project. It involved cooperation of all local agencies such as ODOT, TRI-MET, METRO, Wash DOT, 5 counties, 14 cities, police, emergency services providers and private sector participation. A jurisdictional framework was developed outlining their roles and responsibilities. An Incident Management Plan was developed to initiate incident management setup in Portland. The plan outlined the responsibilities for incident detection, response, clearance and traffic management.

Tahoe Basin ITS Strategic Plan
DKS prepared the ITS Strategic Plan and Regional ITS Architecture for the Tahoe Basin which encompassed parts of two states (California and Nevada) and five counties (Carson City, Douglas, El Dorado, Placer and Washoe). The Plan was a joint effort of transportation, law enforcement, and emergency response agencies, as well as the recreation, entertainment, lodging and other businesses from throughout the Basin. It identified a set of recommended ITS strategies and projects, with detailed descriptions for the higher priority projects. The project explored the full range of ITS technologies and strategies and identified those that might be most effective in meeting the mobility and safety needs of the Tahoe region. The plan identified the highest priority ITS applications and included them in a blueprint for short- and long-range ITS deployment in the region. Key elements of the plan included traveler information, roadway weather information, traffic monitoring, a communication network, central traffic management, traffic signal coordination, coordinated transit service, transit passenger fare management, and advanced crossing and pedestrian warning systems. In preparing the plan, DKS responded to the distinctly different needs of a highly peaked recreational area where mobility and safety concerns result from high summer and winter visitor volumes, snow storms, rains and forest fires. DKS worked closely with the TRPA to address the special institutional challenges of a region that spans two states and five counties, that is the focus of a federal initiative to improve environmental quality and that is heavily influenced by the opinions of the tourism-related business owners of the region.

I-580 SMART Corridor
On an accelerated schedule, the project team prepared the deployment plan and system design, provided bidding support, provided construction oversight services and is currently providing system integration testing for the Project which encompasses the I-580 corridor extending from Livermore to Castro Valley in the bay area of California. The deployment plan consists of the system architecture plan, ramp metering plan, incident management plan, upgrades of three signal systems to ATMSs, and an information dissemination plan. The system design includes the communications network and associated interfaces with Caltrans, Alameda County, emergency management centers, public transit, and traveler information systems; upgrades of three traffic operations centers with associated data exchange networks; as well as advanced traffic controllers, CCTV cameras and video detection sensors on arterials throughout the I-580 corridor. The I-580 Smart Corridor Project is designed to provide interoperability with future Tri-Valley transportation and transit management centers. The system supports NCTIP center-to-center protocol and sharing of digital IP video between centers. The project team also designed the Tri-Valley ITS website which will provide real-time traveler information access. The I-580 Smart Corridor project involves coordination with the Cities of Pleasanton, Livermore, and Dublin, Alameda County, Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), Caltrans District 4, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), Livermore Amador Valley Transportation Authority (LAVTA), California Highway Patrol (CHP) and Alameda County Sheriff.