In Lake County, Illinois, TMC physical components cost $1.8 million.

TMC Physical Component Cost in Lake County, IL

Made Public Date
09/04/2008
Identifier
2008-SC00158
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Summary Information

In Lake County, Illinois, a traffic management center (TMC) was constructed to serve at a central hub for all communications related to real-time traffic and maintenance activities used to support advanced traffic management and signal system operations. The data below extracted from Table 9-1 of the source report highlights capital cost items in the preliminary budget.
 

Budget Item
Capital Cost
TMC PS&E (Plans, Specs. & Engineering) / Construction support (10%)
$125,509
TMC Construction
$1,255,089
Generator and Uninterrupted Power Supply
$150,000
Video Wall
$175,000
TMC Phones
$4,650
TMC console
$59,000
Office Furniture
$22,400
Sub-Total TMC
$1,805,048
Construction of Fiber Optic Infrastructure and
Comm. Backbone Equip. (per corridor)
$1,000,000
3 Dynamic message signs
$120,000
3 Highway advisory radios
$120,000
5 CCTV cameras
$100,000
20 Highway advisory radio signs
$10,000
Field Elements and Comm. PS&E (10%)
$267,000
Integration oversight and Mgmt.
$222,000
System integration & ATMS Functions
$850,000
Hardware and COTS Software
$210,000
Signal System - Central (including integration)
$475,000
Signal System - Firmware upgrades
$320,000
Signal Timing
$50,000
Sub-Total Excluding TMC
$3,744,000
Contingency
$227,210
TOTAL
$5,776,258


In addition to the capital costs listed above, the annual O&M costs required to maintain communications between the TMC and field devices using a fiber optic network were estimated at $2,400 per pan-tilt-zoom camera, $1,200 per master controller, and $600 per vehicle detection station camera.

Staffing requirements for the facility were estimated at $120,000 to $130,000 per year for two TMC Operators (initially 2 full time equivalents) as well as system support and administration. Training during the first year of operations was estimated at $20,000.