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Lauren Netherton
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4440 Edith Street
Bellaire
TX
77401
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4440 Edith Street
Bellaire
TX
77401
Project Information
Traffic Management System
Harris County
Bellaire Blvd, Bissonnet Street, South Rice Avenue, Newcastle Street
Bellaire Blvd from Chimney Rock to Newcastle Street, Bissonnet Street from Chimney Rock to Newcastle Street, South Rice Avenue from Fournace Place to Beechnut Street, Newcastle Street from Bissonnet to Beechnut Street
Currently, the City of Bellaire experiences high traffic congestion in the morning and evening peak hours. The high traffic congestion is primarily along Bellaire Blvd, Bissonnet Street, South Rice Avenue, and Newcastle Street. As the number of vehicles on the road increases, combined with natural disasters and air quality policies, a Traffic Management System that connects Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) infrastructure that monitors traffic conditions, can be used to increase mobility, increase safety and reduced environmental impacts.
A Traffic Management System (TMS) will improve traffic incident detection, response, and clearance times, communication within city department and other agencies, such as TransStar, and allow for better on-site management of incidents. It will improve coordination to the actual response to scenes and the monitoring of impacts of incidents. The city’s Traffic Management Center (TMC) would be built at the Police Station building in the City of Bellaire. The TMS will have the ability to monitor the 14 existing traffic signals maintained by the City of Bellaire. The TMS will also monitor any future signals and will connect to the proposed ITS equipment to help monitor the traffic signals. This technology includes fiber optic cable, twisted-pair communication cable, closed-circuit (CCTV) cameras, dynamic message signs and loop detector sensors. The CCTV cameras would be installed at all the traffic signal locations to analyze real-time traffic conditions, which will be useful when managing emergency situations such as a traffic incident or for traffic management on special events. The residents of the city of Bellaire would be able to access real-time traffic conditions with a “Real-Time Traffic Map” The dynamic message signs (DMS) will provide drivers with real-time alerts especially on IH 610 and IH 69. The TMS operation staff will alert drivers about upcoming delays, incident reports, travel times, construction work, safety messages and special events. The TMS in conjunction with the DMS signs can help optimize traffic conditions and help drivers get to where they need to go safer, and more efficiently. Loop detector sensors are essential to the TMS since the sensors will continuously monitor traffic flow (speed, occupancy, and/or volume). The sensors process traffic volumes that help determine the best signal timing plan that matches the current volumes. If a new timing plan is needed, the system communicates to the traffic signals and switches to a plan that provides adequate green time along the roadway corridor.
A Traffic Management System in the City of Bellaire will improve traffic incident detection, response, clearance times, communication among city departments and other agencies and allow for better on-site management of incidents. Also, it will improve coordination to the actual response to scenes and the monitoring of impacts of incidents. It will allow the downloading and uploading of signal timings to maintain and update the synchronization of traffic signals. The TMS would allow the city of Bellaire to alert their residents with a real-time traffic alert for any upcoming delays, construction work, travel times and special events.
No
No
Less than $100 million
(Manage) ITS Infrastructure
548000
Project Development/Readiness
Not Started
Categorical Exclusion (CE)
11/01/2020
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Map/Location
Benefit/Cost Analysis
2. Roadway-Safety-Benefits-Template.xlsx
3. Roadway-Emissions-Benefits-Template.xlsx
Using the provided HGAC variables and a cost of $685,000, the BCA was calculated based on the equation: Benefit/Cost Analysis Measure(s): [Safety Benefits ($) + Delay + Emissions Reductions ($)]/Funding Requested Total Benefits: $47,716,085 Funding Requested: $548,000 B/C = 87.07
Planning Factors - Improves Corridor Level of Travel Time Reliability (LOTTR)
0.01 – 0.10
Planning Factors - Incident/Event Management
Yes
Yes, the Traffic Management System will be the City’s incident management system.
Yes
Bellaire Boulevard is on the CMP Network, and Bissonnet Street is on the Tier 2 Network.
Yes
The proposed Traffic Management System (TMS) will improve traffic incident detection, response, and clearance times, communication within city department and other agencies, such as TransStar, and allow for better on-site management of incidents. It will improve coordination to the actual response to scenes and the monitoring of impacts of incidents. Specifically, the CCTV cameras would be installed at all the traffic signal locations to analyze real-time traffic conditions, which will be useful when managing emergency situations such as a traffic incident or for traffic management on special events. The residents of the city of Bellaire would be able to access real-time traffic conditions with a “Real-Time Traffic Map.”
Yes
A Traffic Management System will improve traffic incident detection, response, and clearance times, communication among agencies, and allow for better on-site management of incidents. It will improve coordination to the actual response to scenes and the monitoring of impacts of incidents.
Yes
Yes, the proposed TMS will provide priority to transit, through the use of transit detection and prioritization at the signals.
Planning Factors - Interagency Coordination/Continuity of Operations
Yes
A Traffic Management System (TMS) will improve traffic incident detection, response, and clearance times, communication within city department and other agencies, such as TransStar, and allow for better on-site management of incidents.
Yes
The Traffic Management System will include the traditional signal and freeway device support (for incident response only), but it will also include the latest technology for Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS) including transit priority integration, congestion management, and multiple protocol support. Management options include maps with aerials, event logging, user logging and data archiving/retrieval. It will include congestion management that can automatically initiate responses to congestion conditions or incidents. The system will provide immediate updates on detector malfunctions, stuck pedestrian buttons, abnormal phase timing, congestion alerts, and more. And gain proactive control by automatically repositioning cameras when congestion thresholds are reached. Detection elements include congestion maps, incident detection, controller phase monitoring, detector malfunction monitoring, automatic controller database verification, and support for radar, video, and wireless devices.
Planning Factors - Roadway Hierarchy/Freight System Priority/Evacuation Route
Principal Arterial
No
No
No
Yes