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State Traffic Operations Plan B. Best Practices Interview Summary Wisconsin Department of Transportation Bureau of Highway Operations March 30, 2005 Wisconsin Department of Transportation State Traffic Operations Plan Task 3 – Best Practices/Planning Processes Scan Interview Summaries Background The purpose of Task 3 for the Wisconsin Department of Transportation Bureau of Highway Operations (WisDOT – BHO) Statewide management and business plan for Traffic Operations and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) is to gain knowledge on the best practices used and lessons learned from other State Departments of Transportation (DOT’s). A principal reason behind this initiative by WisDOT is the recent emphasis on Management and Operations (M O) by the Federal Highway Administration and the in the current Transportation Funding reauthorization (TEA 21 Reauthorization, and the proposed SAFETEA and TEA - LU). Selected State DOT’s were surveyed to obtain the desired information, and the results are summarized in this report. Initial State DOT Screening Interviews Brief telephone calls to known and recommended State DOT contact persons (provided by the project team) helped establish the state of development of Traffic and ITS Operations Business plans nationwide. Initial research was performed before approaching each agency, to gain available knowledge and documents on what has been completed and what is in progress. The research identified states that have addressed, or plan to address transportation Management and Operations in their high-level planning process. The research also helped determine if Management and Operations was a subset of the state’s long-range transportation plans, or if the state had a separate plan to address Management and Operations, including Traffic and ITS. The screening interviews established which agencies were candidates for detailed follow-up interviews, based on the following criteria: The agency had a