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The San Diego Intermodal Transportation Management Center (IMTMC) is one of the key elements of the Southern California Priority Corridor SHOWCASE program. The SHOWCASE is a five year program of projects designed to integrate existing and planned advanced traffic management and traveler information deployments in the six-county Corridor area from Los Angeles to the Mexican Border. As one of seven "Early Start" projects funded in FY 1997, the Intermodal TMC is a project that seeks to integrate "all modes and all roads" in the San Diego region of the Corridor. The Intermodal TMC will exchange information with all modes of the region's Intermodal Transportation Management System (TMS) consisting of freeway management, arterial streets management, transit management, PUB Published by: lic safety management, commercial vehicle operations, incident management and advanced traveler information systems. The development of the Intermodal TMC presents technical, management and institutional challenges. In the technical area, this facility must integrate several new functions to the baseline freeway advanced traffic management system, itself still under development by Caltrans districts in Southern California. Simultaneously, the Intermodal TMC must be interoperable with an entity known as the "Kernel", itself being developed as the integration point for a SHOWCASE network. Each ITS system within the Corridor will talk to its regional Kernel through a gateway known as the "Seed", which is simply a translator device from a legacy network or system to the SHOWCASE network. From a management standpoint, this project requires close coordination with a number of other SHOWCASE projects being developed in parallel in the region. A high degree of cooperation among project managers will be required to successfully complete the Intermodal TMC project. Finally, the institutional issues are, as always, projected to be the major challenge. Getting many PUB Published by: lic agencies and the private sector to work towards a unified operational concept to manage the many modes represented in this project will be a daunting task. The culmination of the first of two planned phases for this project is the development of a regional Memorandum of Understanding among participating agencies, a Work Plan for Phase 2 development approved by the FHWA and a High Level Design for the Intermodal TMC and regional TMS. |