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

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