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TxDOT 2017 Short Course October 11, 2017 TDM DASHBOARD Management Information System October 11, 2017
TxDOT 2017 Short Course October 11, 2017
TDM DASHBOARDManagement Information System
October 11, 2017
TxDOT 2017 Short Course October 11, 2017
TDM Dashboard: The Challenge
Timely deliveries of models
– Long-range planning needs and support
• Metropolitan Transportation Plans, Air Quality, Corridor
Coordinating, scheduling and tracking multiple study area travel demand
models
– Traffic counts
– Travel surveys
– Reviewing deliverables (i.e., networks and demographics)
– Model development, application and delivery
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TDM Dashboard: The Solution
Statewide Travel Demand Model Dashboard Website:
– Enhanced way of doing business
– Provides a tool for high level status and progress summary and review
– Provides a tool to improve project management, oversight, and to
cultivate team-level ownership and responsibility
– Framework makes use of roles, responsibilities and division of labor
– Accomplished thru Cloud-based SharePoint site
Team Leader
Lead Modeler
MPO
TxDOT-TPP-S
TxDOT-TPP-T
Survey
UTSA
TTI Help-Desk
Teams
Collective participation
Collaborative
communication and
coordination
• Shared
Decisions
Timelines
Files
Reports
Results
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TDM Dashboard – Architecture/Levels
TDM Dashboard
Summaries
TDM Dashboard
Home &
Map
LEVEL 1TDM Home
Description
Team Leaders
Helpful Links
Announcements
Abilene Model
Team
--- Other Model
Teams
LEVEL 2Modeling Team
Team Staff
Current Model Files
Team Tasks
Team Calendar
Notebook
Abilene
Surveys
Abilene
Model
Abilene
Demographics
LEVEL 3Working Sites
Production Calendar
Production Tasks
Production Notes
Production Files
Amarillo Model
Team
TDM Standards &
Documentation
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TDM Dashboard – The Product - LEVEL I
TxDOT 2017 Short Course October 11, 2017
TDM Dashboard – LEVEL I
TxDOT 2017 Short Course October 11, 2017
TDM Dashboard – LEVEL I
Master Schedule (Five-Year Planning Cycle)
MTP Due Date
Deliver Model
Kick-Off
Meeting
Bare Year
Calibration/Validation
MTP Due Date
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TDM Dashboard – LEVEL I
Each study area in the state allows the MPO and TxDOT to invoke a second level.
TxDOT 2017 Short Course October 11, 2017
TDM Dashboard – LEVEL II
TxDOT 2017 Short Course October 11, 2017
TDM Dashboard – LEVEL II
Milestone Gantt Chart
TxDOT 2017 Short Course October 11, 2017
TDM Dashboard – LEVEL II
E-Mail Correspondence
TxDOT 2017 Short Course October 11, 2017
TDM Dashboard – LEVEL II
Monthly Progress Reports
Documents
accomplishments,
pending items, and
issues relative to
schedule
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TDM Dashboard – LEVEL III
Access Limited to TxDOT and MPOs
TxDOT 2017 Short Course October 11, 2017
TDM Dashboard – LEVEL III
10,000 - total visits since inception
375 – average number of visits per month over previous year
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TDM Dashboard – Deployment
Phased:
1. Internally at TxDOT-TPP
2. Metropolitan Planning Organizations
3. TxDOT Districts
Assumes Microsoft Office 365
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TDM Dashboard – Future Considerations
Investigating features that allow:
– Snapshot reports
– Conditional reporting
– Identify resource gaps
– Identify schedule issues
Information in LEVELs will evolve with ability to harvest information via
queries, benchmarks and time-based rules.
Instructor-led TDM training video’s
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TDM Dashboard – Team Effort
Cooperative effort between:
– Bill Knowles (TPP-T Section Leader)
– Chris Didear (TPP-TASS Branch Manager)
– Janie Temple (TPP TAB Branch Manager) - provided input data.
– Jerry Le (TTI – San Antonio)
– Edgar Krause (TTI – San Antonio)
– Kapil Arya (TTI – Austin)
– Andy Mullins (TTI – Austin)
– Dr. Jim Benson (TTI – Austin)
– Tom Williams (TTI – Austin)
– Kevin Hall (TTI – Austin)
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TDM Dashboard – Questions
TPP offers additional on-site assistance:
–Help Desk: 512-486-5177 or,
–Email: TPP [email protected]
