Robert Arnold Federal Highway Administration Director, Office of Transportation Management

1. Robert Arnold Federal Highway Administration Director, Office of Transportation Management

4. The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith Published 1776 Smith’s premise is that a division of labor would effect a great increase in production

5. 2012 Traffic Signal Report Card • Survey scheduled for distribution in Sept, due early Nov • NTOC Traffic Signal Library & User Forum went live in January https://ntoctsl.groupsite.com. • Five web-based training modules are under development • The series will be offered 12 months beginning in May. • NTOC 001 Defining Mission, Values, Goals and Objectives for Traffic Signal Management & Operations Programs • NTOC 002 Organizational Management for Traffic Signal Services – Part A • NTOC 003 Organizational Management for Traffic Signal Services – Part B • NTOC 004 Managing the Performance of Traffic Signal Systems • NTOC 005 Maintenance Management for Traffic Signal Services •   Report Card scheduled for release in Feb 2012.

6. Passive vs Active Which would provide a more comfortable and efficient heating/cooling system? A “set it and forget it” thermostat located in a single room and basing its temperature input on one location and a static view of the home’s environmental needs. or an actively managed system using performance feedback in multiple rooms and providing logical resource assignments both in terms of needs, time, and location (house zones).

7. Need Not Want

9. 1956 GM Firebird II Safety Authority Radio Link Control Tower and Autoway

10. 2011 Smart Car

11. The future sometimes arrives in unexpected ways or Transportation in a briefcase Briefcase Car Teleworking – Shopping – Education - Sightseeing

12. Suspension of Time Error Correction Impact on Traffic Control Systems

13. Possible Impacts on Clocks • Assuming past frequency performance persists Eastern Interconnection will gain 20 minutes each year • Western Interconnection will gain 8 minutes each year • Texas Interconnection will gain 2 minutes each year

14. What is FHWA doing? • Awareness of Stakeholders • Contacting NERC’s TEC subcommittee • Updating transportation stakeholders • Monitoring impact • Coordinating response if any to TEC • Developing mitigation strategies if warranted

15. Future of Federal-aid program

16. Authorization

17. What's on the table . . . • Increased Grantee flexibility • Dramatic simplification of Federal programs • Decisions based on merit • Encouragement of innovation • Direct pricing of road use for congestion reduction • Empowering the customer

18. What's on the table (cont). . . • Mode neutrality – funding for transportation not a specific mode type • Federal oversight focused only on what is the Federal interest • Gas tax increase vs. PPPs, tolling, congestion pricing • Federal role vs. State role

19. Will most likely contain • Performance management / measures • Livability and Sustainability • Public Private Partnerships • Congestion pricing • Tolling interoperability • Multi-State corridor perspective • Experiments, Pilots, and Trials • Funding mechanisms • Stewardship & Oversight

20. Questions