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Appendix A - Albany, New York, Case Study
Appendix A - Albany, New York, Case Study
Pages 21-27
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The unusual situation of two highway operating agencies with overlapping jurisdiction, each supported by different divisions of a law enforcement agency, underscores the need for close coordination in the region. Methods of sharing traffic incident management (TIM)
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and 11 separate troops, two of which serve the Albany region. Troop G is responsible for 10 counties, including the Albany Capital Region.
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The TMC and the Thruway Statewide Operations Center (TSOC) are the flagships for transportation–public safety information sharing in the Capital Region.
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On-scene coordination is ad hoc, transitory, and common to incident scenes across the United States. Various traffic-planning task forces in the Albany region, including the Capital Region Traffic Management Task Force and the Saratoga-Warren Traffic Incident Management Task Force, provide the basis for coordinated incident management, but are not directly involved in the real-time sharing of incident detection, response, or scene management information.
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During the prototype demonstration, the hotline phone has been used by various TMC and TSOC personnel to exchange time-critical incident management and law enforcement information. The extensions were used to support noncritical activities, such as coordinating routine traffic management activities.
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NYSDOT and NYSTA control and monitor various field devices and manage freeway traffic throughout the Capital Region. These systems are shared broadly with their partner NYSP troops and to a lesser extent with other public agencies.
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partnered with NYSDOT, NYSTA, and NYSP to demonstrate the benefits of such high-speed communications for traffic management operations. Under contract to JPO, Mitretek Systems successfully linked the NYSTA TSOC and the NYSDOT TMC with the Broadband Wireless Integrated Service prototype (see Figure 5)
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