ITS Heartland 2012 Annual Meeting Kansas City, MO Please visit our Vimeo site for access to voice narrated presentations: https://vimeo.com/matc/review/42143353/5be475b757 Presented by Tim Simodynes, ITS Engineer, Iowa Department of Transportation

1. Iowa ITS Update
Tim Simodynes, PE
“The New Willy”
ITS Engineer
Iowa DOT
ITS Heartland
Kansas City, Missouri
March 27, 2012

2. Thanks
ITS Staff in Iowa & Other States
Consultants & Vendors
The people who did not remind
me of the greatness of Willy’s
presentations
…Both of you!
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3. Three people I am starting to
relate to
Phil Bengtson
Gene Bartow
Matthew Ridgway
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4. Who?
Phil Bengtson
 Packers Coach after
Vince Lombardi
Gene Bartow
 UCLA coach after
John Wooden
Matthew Ridgway
 Supreme Allied
Commander after Vincelombardi.com
Dwight Eisenhower
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5. Tim Simodynes
Iowa’s ITS Engineer after
the Great Willy Sorenson
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6. About Me
Originally from Omaha, Nebraska
Iowa State University
for BS & MS in Civil Engineering
Last 14 years at Iowa DOT,
Office of Traffic & Safety
Crash Data, Safety Research,
Human Factors, Roundabouts,
etc.
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7. ITS Staff in Iowa
Sandra Larson, PE
Director, Research
and Technology Bureau
Sinclair Stolle, PE Mike Jackson, PE Tim Simodynes, PE
Iowa 511 Special Projects ITS Engineer
Co-Op Student
(vacant)
Kyle Halligan, EIT Tony Taylor Jason Dale, EIT 7

8. ITS Staff Changes
ITS Traffic & Safety
Willy Tim
Alex Preston, Co-Op Student
Graduated Dec. 2011
to TransCore
Alex Preston, EIT
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9. About Iowa
9 “Metro” Areas (> 50,000)
Ames
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10. Urban ITS Deployments
Cameras, Sensors, Permanent DMS
Ames
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11. Mike Jackson
Current Urban Efforts
Cameras, Sensors, Permanent DMS
Ames
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12. Urban ITS Deployments
Overhead DMS
PTZ Cameras
Side-Mount
DMS Highway Advisory
Radio (HAR)
Transmitters
Communications
Side-Fire Radar Gates Fiber Optic
Traffic Sensors & Wireless

13. Statewide Operations Support
John Haas
Center (SOSC), Ames

14. Advanced Traveler Information
System (ATIS) – “CARS” 511
Sinclair Stolle

15. Advanced Traffic Management
System (ATMS) – “SIMS”
Mike Jackson

16. Evolving Website – 511ia.org
Google Map Based Sinclair Stolle

17. Evolving Website – 511ia.org
New: My Routes
2011
Traffic
Incidents
along saved
routes

18. Evolving Website – 511ia.org
New: Twitter Subscriptions
Twitter feeds for 99 counties, Metro Areas, and
Statewide. (i.e. 99 Twitter Feeds)
Coming: Pushed TXT message or email for
your saved “My Routes”
 Choose days, times, and direction of travel for your
alerts.
Sinclair Stolle’s work!

19. ITS Inventory
Beyond Urban Deployments

20. Dynamic Message Signs (DMS)
Overhead DMS (56+) Side-Mount DMS (40+)
Portable DMS (64+) Rest Area DMS (37)

22. Roadway Weather Information
System (RWIS)
• 64 RWIS Installations
• 47+ with Cameras
• 41 with Traffic Sensors
• Weather information available via
http://weatherview.iowadot.gov

23. Highway Advisory Radio (HAR)
Transmitters
AM “Super HAR” Low Power FM
Transmitters HAR Transmitters
- Council Bluffs (1) - Adair (I-80)
- Des Moines (2) - DeSoto (I-80)
- Iowa City (1) - Sloan (I-35)
- Quad Cities (1) - Urbana (I-380)
- Sioux City (1)
Portable HAR
Transmitters
(2)

24. Highway Advisory Radio (HAR)
10 Permanent 2 Portable
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25. Portable ITS Equipment
Portable Cameras Portable HAR Portable DMS
(w/ Traffic Sensors) Transmitters (64+)
(4) (2)

26. Additional Cameras
RWIS (Weather) Stations
On Some Rural DMS
District Staff Requests
High Crash Intersections
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27. Intersection Cameras at 5
Expressway Intersections
History of severe crashes
Various geometric improvements
Future: Incident Detection Systems

28. Current ITS Efforts
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29. Traffic Incident Management
Electronic pdf Manuals

30. Traffic Incident Management
“Tim Shareswell”

31. Traffic Incident Management
“Tim Shareswell”

32. Bluetooth Detection for
Work Zone Travel Times
I-380 north of Iowa City
2012 Bridge Project
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33. Bridge Over-height Detection
& Warning Systems (2)
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34. GPS/AVL in Maintenance Vehicles
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35. ITS Outside Services in 2012
On-call ITS Maintenance Contract
Dynamic Message Sign Supplier
Bridge Clearance Warning System
ITS On-call Consultant Services Contracts
 Probably 3
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36. Potential Future ITS
Ongoing Urban ITS Deployments
Intersection Incident Detection System
Wrong Way Traffic on Freeways
Rest Area Truck Parking Availability
Information
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37. Potential Future ITS
My Interests
Crash/Incident Prevention
Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I)
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38. How’s Willy?
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39. How’s Willy?
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40. Questions?
I probably won’t have the answer, but am
happy to take it with me and follow up later.
Tim.Simodynes@dot.iowa.gov
515.239.1606
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