DEVELOPMENT OF RAPID DEPLOYMENT ITS ELEMENT TO SUPPORT CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT

The successful use of a temporary Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) deployment by New York State in support of the recent Prospect Expressway Reconstruction Project (which involved the rebuilding of the Prospect/Gowanus Expressways interchange) has proved the efficacy of using ITS in construction project support. The NYSDOT contract provided for the installation of a full traffic command center and the deployment of traffic monitoring systems on both highways. Deployed equipment included: 43 Autoscope Video Incident Detectors (VIDS), 20 pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) equipped cameras, 6 Variable Message Signs (VMS) a Highway Advisory Radio (HAR) station, and other auxiliary equipment. The installation was designed to support the reconstruction of the interchange, initially, and then be expanded to support the rebuilding of the Gowanus Expressway, a project scheduled to take seven years