Western States Rural Transportation Consortium (WSRTC)

The Western States Rural Transportation Consortium (WSRTC), comprised of California, Oregon, Washington and Nevada, has been established to facilitate and enhance safe, seamless travel throughout the western United States. The Consortium seeks to promote innovative partnerships, technologies and educational opportunities to meet these objectives. Additionally, the Consortium seeks to provide a collaborative mechanism to leverage research activities in a coordinated manner to respond to rural transportation issues among western states related to technology, operations and safety. Consequently, activities of the Consortium are focused on technology transfer/education (Western States Rural Transportation Technology Implementers Forum) and incubator projects (small scale research projects intended to serve as a “proof of concept” for larger subsequent efforts) centered on the Consortium pillars of technology, operations and safety.

Please visit our project pages and visit this site frequently, as we continue to add content.

Recent Updates:

Friday 7/16/2010 WSRTC activities update	Friday 7/09/2010 2010 Western States Forum a success!	Friday 4/23/2010 A number of activities are in progress or upcoming.

Check back soon for more Western States Rural Transportation Consortium (WSRTC) updates.

UPDATE: Friday, July 16th, 2010

Because members of the Western States Rural Transportation Consortium come from four different states, the Western States Forum provided a convenient time and location for an informal meeting. Ian Turnbull and Sean Campbell from Caltrans, Ted Bailey from Washington State DOT (WSDOT), Jon Dickinson from Nevada DOT, and David Veneziano and Doug Galarus from WTI, met during the Forum to discuss the status of the Consortium charter documents, budget, and the Consortium pooled fund. The Charter and Pooled Fund documents are being finalized and are expected to be completed soon. A number of potential activities and projects were also discussed and several ideas were highlighted for future Consortium directions.

One area of interest for the Consortium is the application of Bluetooth technologies to rural travel time observation. A Bluetooth working group has been established and is actively sharing information about projects being conducted in the member states. During the Western States Forum, the University of Washington (UW) and WSDOT presented their research on using Bluetooth MAC address matching for travel times. You can review the complete presentation on the Western States Forum website.

Here is Yegor Malinovskiy from the University of Washington explaining potential applications of Bluetooth technologies. The devices on the chairs (front and back) are Bluetooth sensors used for travel time data collection and were built by UW.

WSRTC Update

Photo by Doug Galarus

Consortium Contacts:

Caltrans Project Manager:

Sean Campbell
Chief, ITS Special Project Branch
Caltrans Division of Research and Innovation
1227 O Street, PO Box 942873
Sacramento, CA 94273-0001
916-654-8868
916-657-4580 (fax)
sean_campbell "at" dot.ca.gov
www.dot.ca.gov/newtech/

Caltrans Project Champion:

Ian Turnbull
Chief, Office of ITS Engineering and Support
Caltrans District 2
1657 Riverside Drive
Redding, CA 96001
(530) 225-3320
(530) 225-3299 Fax
ian_turnbull "at" dot.ca.gov
www.dot.ca.gov/dist2/

Caltrans Rural Program Steering Committee Chairman:

Ed Lamkin
Deputy District Director for Maintenance and Operations
Caltrans District 2
PO Box 496073
1657 Riverside Drive
Redding, CA 96049-6073
(530) 225-3545
Ed_Lamkin "at" dot.ca.gov
www.dot.ca.gov/dist2/

Oregon DOT Lead:

Galen McGill
ITS Manager
Oregon Department of Transportation
355 Capitol St. N.E.
Salem, OR 97301-3871
503-986-4486
503-986-3055 (fax)
Galen.E.MCGILL "at" odot.state.or.us
http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/HWY/ITS/

Washington State DOT Lead:

Ted Bailey
Signals, Illumination & ITS Engineer
Washington State Department of Transportation
PO Box 47344
310 Maple Park Avenue SE
Olympia, WA 98504
(360) 705-7286
(360) 705-6826 Fax
BaileyTe "at" wsdot.wa.gov
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Operations/Traffic/

Nevada DOT Lead:

Jonathan Dickinson
Senior ITS Designer
NDOT Maintenance and Operations
1263 So. Stewart Street
Carson City, NV 89712
(775) 888-7560
(775) 888-7211 (fax)
jdickinson "at" dot.state.nv.us
http://www.nevadadot.com/

WTI Principal Investigator:

David Veneziano
Research Scientist
Safety and Operations
Western Transportation Institute (WTI)
Montana State University
PO Box 174250
Bozeman, MT 59717-4250
(406) 994-6320
(406) 994-1697 Fax
david.veneziano "at" coe.montana.edu
www.westerntransportationinstitute.org

WTI Technical Lead:

Douglas Galarus
Program Manager
Systems Engineering, Development & Integration
Western Transportation Institute (WTI)
Montana State University - Bozeman
PO Box 174250
Bozeman, MT 59717-4250
(406) 994-5268
(406) 994-1697 Fax
dgalarus "at" coe.montana.edu
www.westerntransportationinstitute.org

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