Future Projects

Recognizing the tremendous need for roadway, infrastructure and congestion-relief projects throughout Illinois, the Illinois Tollway has worked with numerous partners in developing three TIGER grant applications to ensure Illinois is well represented when Federal officials review the hundreds of TIGER applications submitted from states and localities throughout the nation. Listed below, the Tri-State (I-294)/I-57 interchange application provides regional improvement to over-the-road freight movement, the 511 Travel Information project enhances mobility, safety and security for the regions drivers and the Pace partnership connects communities to job-centers with a low-cost and environmentally responsible transit option.

Recognizing the national importance of coordinated travel information and traffic management in the Midwest, Illinois Tollway is submitting a TIGER Grant application for funding to fully integrate traffic management centers across the region and provide real-time travel information to commercial users, commuters, and leisure travelers via a new statewide 511 Travel Information System. The Tollway has worked with state, regional and federal transportation officials, leaders from E911 and cellular telecommunications communities and Illinois legislators to develop this new statewide concept.

ITEMS TIGER Application

Supporting Documentation

• Letters of Support
• Federal Wage Rage Certificate
• Detailed Cost Estimate
• Job and Economic Impacts of Designing, Building, and Operating ITEMS in Illinois
• Preliminary Benefit-Cost Analysis
• Detailed Schedule

Reference Documents by Section

Maps

• IL Economically Distressed Areas: County Map
  

Economic Development and Tourism in Chicago

• World Business Chicago. “Summary of Economic Statistics for Chicago.”
  
• Regional Transportation Authority. “Overview.”
  
• Chicago Region Environmental and Transportation Efficiency Program. “CREATE Program Overview.”
  
• Fly Chicago. “Chicago Statistics.”
  
• Illinois International Port District. “Port of Chicago: Critical to Chicago’s Transportation Infrastructure.”
  
• Choose Chicago. “2007 Visitor Volume Economic Impact.”
  
• Research Department of the Travel Industry Association. “The Economic Impact of Travel on Illinois Counties 2007.” July 2008.
  
• D. K. Shifflet & Associates, Ltd. “Illinois and Chicago 2007 Total Leisure Visitor Profile.” August 2008.
  
• Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Development. “2007 Economic Impact of Illinois Mile after Magnificent Mile.”
  
• Chicago Office of Tourism. “2007 Statistical Information.”
  

Traffic and Congestion

• Texas Transportation Institute. “Urban Mobility Report 2009.” July 2009.
  

ITS History

• Illinois State Toll Highway Authority. “Intelligent Transportation Systems—5-Year Deployment Plan.” June 25, 2008.
  
• Chicago Area Transportation Study. “Congestion Management System for Northeastern Illinois: 2006 Status Report.” July 2006.
  
• Dillenburg, John, Charles Sikaras, and Jerry Hron. “Gateway System Status Report.” August 7, 2009.
  
• McDermott, Joseph M. “Freeway Surveillance and Control in Chicago Area.” Transportation Engineering Journal. May 1980. Pages 333-348.
  
• Dhanaraju, Sharan, Yanfeng Ouyang, and Umit Deniz Tursun. “Regional Data Archiving and Management for Northeast Illinois.” Illinois Center for Transportation. Research Report ICT-09-050. June 2009.
  

Other

• GCM ITS Priority Corridor. “Gateway Traveler Information System: XML and Camera Image Download Manual, Document # 2-8540.00.” October 25, 2007
  
• GCM ITS Priority Corridor. “Gateway Traveler Information System: XML Upload Manual.” May 13, 2009.
  
• Current and Projected Levels of Integration with ITEMS (for visually impaired readers)
  

• Chicago Area Transportation Study. “Northeastern Illinois ITS Deployment Plan Update.” July 2005.
  
• Illinois Department of Transportation. “Illinois Statewide ITS Strategic Plan and Architecture Technical Assistance Project.” August 2005.
  

• HDR Decision Economics (for the Metropolitan Planning Council). “Moving at the Speed of Congestion, The True Costs of Traffic in the Chicago Metropolitan Area.” August 2008.
  
• Rall, Jaime. “Beyond Highway Congestion: Alternative Uses for Transportation Funding from America’s Recovery and Reinvention Act.” National Conference of State Legislatures. March 2009.
  
• U.S. Department of Transportation Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office. “Coordinating, Planning, and Managing the Effects of Roadway Construction with Technology.” April 30, 2009.
  
• 511 Deployment Coalition. “The Value of Deploying 511.” May 2004.
  
• “Real-Time System Management Information Program.” FHWA Docket FHWA-2006-24219, Federal Register, Volume 74, No. 9, January 14, 2009.
  
• “Conditions and Performance: 2006 Status of the Nation’s Highways, Bridges and Transit.” Report to Congress of the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration and Federal Transit Administration. Pages 10-3 to 10-5.
  
• Heminger, Steve. “Metro Mobility.” National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission. January 17-18, 2007. Using FHWA, Caltrans and MTC data.
  

• “Observations on Scenario 1: Maximum Operation.” Commission Briefing Paper 6B-01, National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission. August 6, 2007.
  
• “Economic Implications of Congestion.” National Cooperative Highway Research Program Report 463, Transportation Research Board, 2001.
  
• Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning. “Updated 2030 Regional Transportation Plan for Northeastern Illinois.” October 9, 2008.
  
• “Air Quality Benefit Study of the SmarTraveler Advanced Traveler Information Service.” 1993.
  
• “ITS Impacts Assessment for Seattle.” MMDI Evaluation. 1999.
  

The Illinois Tollway is submitting a TIGER Grant application for funding to construct the proposed interchange between the South Tri-State Tollway (I-294) and I-57 to provide an interstate-to-interstate linkage where none currently exists, relieve congestion on local routes, and enhance economic development of the region. The Tollway has worked closely with IDOT, local officials, Illinois legislators and congressional representatives to highlight the need for this new interchange.

For application and supporting documents...

Pace and the Illinois Tollway are working in partnership to submit a TIGER Grant application for funding to develop an Express Bus Network with stations and park-&-ride lots at or near several interchanges and oases along Tri-State Tollway (I-294/I-80) between the Chicago Southland Lincoln Oasis and the Oak Brook and O’Hare/Rosemont areas. As the roadway manager, the Tollway will submit the application, however PACE is the lead contact and recipient of all TIGER funds.

Pace/Tollway Express Bus Network Application (PDF - 8.2 Mb)