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Technical Assistance Subgroup Meeting #1 (November 19, 2020)

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Virtual Attendees

  • Austin Department of Transportation – Luke Urie
  • Bentley Systems – Lee Jackson
  • Booz Allen Hamilton – Mahsa Ettefagh
  • David Aylesworth – CeVe
  • General Motors – Curtis Hay
  • Federal Geographic Data Committee (USDOT) – Derald Dudley
  • Federal Highway Administration – Todd Peterson
  • IBI Group – Jacob Brady
  • Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) – Nisar Ahmed
  • Michigan DOT – Meredith Nelson
  • RTC of Southern Nevada – Eneliko Mulokozi
  • Trihydro Corporation – Shane Zumpf
  • Texas DOT – Jianming Ma
  • Utah DOT – Chuck Felice
  • Volpe – Mark Mockett
  • Volpe – Molly Behan
  • Volpe – Nate Deshmukh-Towery
  • Volpe – Wesley Alford

Purpose

  • Introduce Co-Chairs and discuss the subgroup’s charter and activities
  • Present findings from case study interviews with early adopters
  • Clarify member roles and responsibilities

Agenda

  • Introductions
  • Early Adopter Implementation Guide
  • Technical Assistance Forum
  • “Help Desk” for Technical Assistance
  • Future Technical Assistance Activities

Discussion Summary

Subgroup Purpose and Scope

  • The co-chairs introduced themselves
  • Shane Zumpf reviewed the purpose and scope of the Technical Assistance Subgroup as well as the group’s updated charter

Early Adopter Interviews

  • Curtis Hay discussed the findings from the early adopter interviews with TxDOT, MassDOT, and MCDOT
    • Interest in method for identify reoccurring work zones
    • Improved and more detailed examples of WZDx specification field definitions
    • Desire to understand the quality of data and define performance metric for the standard
    • Would like to understand the needs, desires, use cases of data consumers
  • Curtis highlighted tools that were used to develop the WZDx data feeds

GitHub Technical Assistance Forum

  • Chuck Felice gave an overview of the Technical Assistance Forum
    • Chuck provided examples of previous posts
  • Chuck also discussed the purpose of the CAV helpdesk

Next Steps and Action Items

  • Chuck Felice shared the group’s plans for publishing the early adopter interviews in the form of a guide
  • The co-chairs will review and develop business rules for the next update cycle
  • The co-chairs will also work on producing a self-validation checklist for new data feeds

Open Discussion

  • Meredith Nelson expressed interested in hearing the different experiences of those developing a data feed starting from scratch versus enhancing existing systems
    • The co-chairs expressed hope at capturing this in the early adopter guide

Wiki

Work Zone Data Working Group [Archive]

Specification Update Subgroup [Archive]

Technical Assistance Subgroup [Archive]

Technical Assistance Subgroup Archive

Worker Presence Subgroup

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