CHATS Intelligent Transportation Systems

ITS Committee

Overall Role: Volunteers, SCDOT staff, municipal staff, and representatives with technical expertise on ITS that help to guide and coordinate the region’s ITS deployments

Project Role: Provide input on existing conditions, share local needs, and vet potential strategies to be recommended to the CHATS Policy Committee

Project Deliverables

Process

Stakeholder Engagement

  • Workshop #1: Meeting participants discussed existing conditions for the following strategies and shared upcoming initiatives and challenges to establish a regional baseline inventory:
    • Recurring Traffic Management & Emerging Technologies
    • Coordinated Incident Management to Address Non-Recurring Congestion
    • Parking Management Technologies and Getting Users to their Destination
    • Resource Management for Transportation Agencies (staffing, training, education, construction, funding)
    • Regional Transit Services
  • Workshop #2: Meeting participants reviewed the gaps identified using the capability maturity model within the baseline inventory and provided feedback on how different strategies could be implemented throughout the region.

Targeted Meetings

To gain further understanding of existing strategies and inventory present throughout the region, targeted meetings were conducted with a subset of stakeholders. The purpose of the one-on-one meetings with District 6, the City of Charleston, and SCDOT HQ were to discuss each’s respective traffic management center and operations, existing or potential challenges within the systems, and record missing or previously unknown inventory items (fiber connection, adaptive/responsive signals, etc.). Interviews with CARTA and the South Carolina Port Authority were necessary due to the organizations service boundaries or significant impact to the region. These meetings provided useful information regarding delay times, compatible software programs, freight usages, and each organizations respective challenges. Finally, specific town and city interviews conducted were completed to allow for more jurisdictional focused conversations and gather additional feedback.