North/West Passage has supported an Operations Task Force for ten years. Since Year 2 the task force has conducted a major event, winter, and flood season review for members to update each other on each winter season. Starting in Year 4, North/West Passage conducted an annual Technician’s Forum to provide technicians with an opportunity to talk with each other and learn about ITS deployments in other states. Each year the group meets regularly to continue to establish relationships, increase interaction among the states outside of major events, and hold webinars on operations-oriented, maintenance operations, and transportation systems management and operations (TSMO) related topics. This project will continue to support the task force for Year 11.
Webinars
| Month | Topic |
| December 11, 2024 | Members discussed practices for entering accurate work zone reporting. |
| November 20, 2024 | Members discussed snow fence practices. |
| October 31, 2024 | Members shared commercial vehicle smart work zone techniques. |
| August 21, 2024 | Technician’s Forum Presentation 1: Streamlining ITS: Unifying Variable Speed Limits and Lane Control Across State Agencies – Presenter, Ansley Skillern, Southwest Research Institute Presentation 2: Evaluation of Starlink Satellite Broadband Communications for Caltrans ITS Field Elements – Presenter, Saeid Delshad, Advanced Highway Maintenance and Construction Technology (AHMCT) Research Center University of California Davis Presentation 3: Wrong-Way Driving (WWD) Detection Systems Update – Presenter, Kent Thurston, Utah DOT Webinar Recording |
| June 12, 2024 | Presentation 1: Providing Local Road Closure Information to Navigation Companies – Presenter, Suzie Roseberry, Wyoming DOT Presentation 2: SD511 County and Tribe Road Winter Road Closures and No-Travel Advisories – Presenter, Dave Huft, South Dakota DOT Webinar Recording |
| May 15, 2024 | Member highlights and discussion from the 2023-24 winter and flood season |
| April 17, 2024 | North Dakota DOT I-29 Smart Corridor and TMC Planning – Presenter Mike Bittner, Bolton-Menk Webinar Recording |
| February 21, 2024 | Members, webinar schedule, and work plan project ideas discussion |
Related Projects
- Project 20.1 – Operations Task Force – Year 13
- Project 19.1 – Operations Task Force – Year 12
- Project 17.1 – Operations Task Force – Year 10
- Project 16.1 – Operations Task Force – Year 9
- Project 15.1 – Operations Task Force – Year 8
- Project 14.1 – Operations Task Force – Year 7
- Project 13.2 – Operations Task Force – Year 6
- Project 12.1 – Operations Task Force – Year 5
- Project 11.1 – Operations Task Force – Year 4
- Project 10.2 – Operations Task Force – Year 3
- Project 9.1 – Operations Task Force – Year 2
- Project 8.1 – Operations Task Force – Year 1
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