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Media Relations Contact:
Morgan Lyons
Mark A. Ball
December 7, 2009
$5.3 million federal grant awarded to DART
U. S. Department of Transportation program brings multiple agencies, many
approaches to improving US 75 congestion
Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) will be the lead agency in a new demonstration project of the U.
S. Department of Transportation's Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) program.
The federal government is providing more than $5 million toward the $8.3 million project. San Diego
is the other region receiving federal support for an ICM program.
The effort is designed to collaboratively engage the planning, technology and infrastructure
resources of the various cities and government jurisdictions along the corridor from Dallas, north to
SH 121 in Piano, in improving mobility along the entire corridor instead of the traditional approach of
managing individual assets to solve local mobility needs. By applying ICM, the operating agencies
along this section of the corridor will manage it as an integrated asset in order to improve travel time
reliability and predictability by empowering travelers through better information and more
transportation choices.
"The goal is to bring together in a single, easy-to-follow format, a number of independent
components, like real-time travel information, DART information, parking availability and traffic
monitoring," said DART President/Executive Director Gary Thomas. "We appreciate the support of
the Department of Transportation in awarding us this demonstration project."
The project is a collaborative effort between DART, Dallas, Highland Park, Plano, Richardson,
University Park, the North Central Texas Council of Governments, the North Texas Tollway
Authority, Texas Transportation Institute, University of Texas at Arlington, Southern Methodist
University, Telvent Farradyne, Inc., and the Texas Department of Transportation. Dallas and San
Diego were the two cities selected to conduct a demonstration of the ICM concepts and provide a
first test of the ICM concept on a large scale in the United States.
> View the U.S. Department of Transportation release:
DOT Awards Funds to Dallas, San Diego for New Technology Initiative to Fight Congestion (opens
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How ICM works
In an ICM corridor, commuters could receive information that encompasses the entire transportation
network to help them make better decisions about how to travel in that corridor. For example a
commuter planning to use US 75 from Richardson to Dallas might choose a side road or perhaps
take DART Rail instead if they were informed of a major traffic tie-up on the highway.
The grant will fund the development and deployment of a Dallas "511" real-time traveler information
system and support integrated operation of the US-75 corridor. The ICM System will collect
information on the current travel conditions on freeways, frontage roads, arterial streets, DART Rail,
park-and-ride lots, and the high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane. Operating agencies will share
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