Overview

May 17

State DOTs are using intelligent technologies to increase the capacity of existing roads and address common highway hazards.

Government Technology will explore how DOTs are using dynamic flex lanes, variable speed limits and other advanced techniques to reduce congestion during a live 30-minute webinar on May 17, 2023, at 10 AM PT/ 1 PM ET.

During this session we will:

Examine how states are using smart work zones, wrong-way driver sensors and other IoT-enabled tools to reduce crashes and save lives
Uncover results and lessons learned from innovative transportation projects
Offer practical guidance on how DOTs can implement new tools for better and safer travel

Speakers

Maureen Bock

Chief Innovation Officer, Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT)

Maureen Bock is ODOT’s Chief Innovation Officer. As the Chief Innovation Officer, she is oversees staff who consult with others in the agency to develop innovative solutions. This can be developing policies in innovative areas, such as connected, automated, and electric vehicle deployment, and doing projects related to these areas. She also oversees staff developing public-private partnerships and the incubation of new business lines, such as OReGO, to an early stage of maturity so they can be moved to other parts of the agency with minimal disruption. As the OReGO Program Manager, she continues to lead the OReGO Program through its evolution towards a sustainable funding solution. Maureen has an undergraduate degree in accounting from California State University-Fullerton and her juris doctor from the University of Arkansas. Maureen was formerly the fuels tax manager with ODOT, where she worked on Oregon’s first road usage charge pilot. Maureen left ODOT in 2011 to work with the Oregon Department of Energy, where she redesigned its tax credit programs including those affecting transportation. She returned to ODOT in 2014 to become the Road Usage Charge Business Implementation Manager and worked with a team of business and IT professionals, as well as three commercial vendors, to design and implement the business processes and systems that support the collection of road usage charges. She continues to lead refinements of the program, including recent efforts to evolve the point of sale enrollment process and demonstrating the feasibility of having a local option road usage charge program for cities and counties. She serves on numerous committees, including being co-chair of OmniAir Consortium’s V2X RUC & Tolling Initiative’s Stakeholder Engagement Tiger Team, OmniAir Consortium Board Member, and chair of the NCHRP Project: 19-18 Transitioning Fuel Tax Assessments to a Road Usage Charge.

Greg Slater

Executive Director/CEO of the Tampa Hillsborough Expressway Authority (THEA)

Greg Slater is the Executive Director/CEO of the Tampa Hillsborough Expressway Authority (THEA) - a dynamic transportation agency that owns, manages, and operates the Selmon Expressway, Meridian Avenue, Brandon Parkway, and the Selmon Greenway. With over 200,000 daily expressway commuters and thousands of pedestrians utilizing THEA's urban trail networks. Slater envisions building a transportation system foundation for the next generation, a roadway of the future, and creating partnerships that will make transportation in Tampa Bay safer and more efficient. He is committed to bringing the best technology and most progressive concepts possible to address transportation challenges. Slater’s distinguished career spans more than two decades as a public servant in various transportation modes, most recently serving as Secretary of the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT), where he oversaw 17,000 lane miles of highways, 2,500 bridge structures, and tolled facilities, including two tollways, two tunnels, and four major bridge structures: a local and commuter bus network, a light rail metro system, commuter rail, and paratransit services.

Steve Towns — Moderator

Director of Content Strategy, Center for Digital Government

Steve Towns is director of content strategy for the Center for Digital Government. He is the former editor of Government Technology and has spent more than 25 years covering technology in the state and local government market.

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