OpenLCAMS minimizes the impact of lane closures by automating the manual processes of planning, monitoring, resolving conflicts, and exchanging information about existing and planned lane closures across the region.

Integrated Traffic Management

The Lane Closure Advisory Management System (OpenLCAMS) addresses the need for a system that will manage the number of road closures with respect to overall congestion due to construction activities and increased growth. The tool provides an automated method for the manual process of planning, monitoring, resolving conflicts, and exchanging information about lane closures across local, regional, and state levels.

OpenLCAMS is an easy-to-use information management tool that features form-based entry for entering lane closures on the web and prepares visual feedback, graphically mapping advisories to check for potential conflicts. OpenLCAMS assists DOT TMC work zone management strategies of monitoring work zones, resolving conflicts, and exchanging information across organizations. The system provides a pre-emptive method for detecting conflicts and duplicate notifications and quickly provides users the information necessary to resolve the conflict. Work crews will now be able to coordinate closures across organizations and bypass the manual method of closure notification and de-confliction processes. Implementing OpenLCAMS minimizes the chance for human error and duplicate requests, and provides a means to verify and compare multiple lane closures against established policies and business practices.

In addition to reducing traffic congestion, the system will provide tertiary benefits such as: reduced accidents in work zones, more efficient public dissemination of real-time traveler information, emergency personnel's response to a life-threatening event, and preserve and maximize critical roadway capacity.

Key Features

• Provides real-time information on the status of closures
• Automated Conflict Detection
• Integration with Incident Management & Transportation Systems
• Utilizes data from RNS, GIS, and Weather Information Systems
• Automated Reporting and Notification Solutions
• Scalable, web-based system