A project plan is like our very own traffic system guiding you through the project. An important note to make is how a project plan is forever changing. The plan make at the start may not be the one finish with, but learning to create a clear project plan and knowing how to discuss its key components. 

Project plan does not merely mean ‘project timeline.’ The timeline is one component of a project plan, however it contains a much deeper level of information concerning the entire planning process and all of its planning documents. This needs to include specifications for the new project, budget, schedule, the risks involved, quality metrics, impacts, etc.

It will most likely come up against conflicting agenda and requirements amongst stakeholders and different views on what needs to be included. This can be particularly challenging on larger, risky, high impact projects.

A large project will include several teams and needs such as engineering, the developer, consultants, etc. Some teams may have more limited views than others and may find it difficult to see the bigger picture so it is important that the project manager has clarity on what works needs to be done and by whom, in addition to making an agreement on which decisions each stakeholder will make.

It is necessary to develop a scope statement in order to get the buy-in and agreement from the sponsor and your other stakeholders. With a scope statement you are more likely to decrease the changes of miscommunro.

Start with schedule and cost baselines.

Identify activities and tasks which will be needed to produce each of the deliverables included on your scope baseline. The detail included in this task list will depend on the experience of your team, the project’s risk and uncertainties, etc.

For each task identify the resources needed, if known at this point.

Make an estimation of how many hours it will take to complete each task.

Estimate the cost of each task, by using an average hourly rate for each resource you may require.

Make sure consider resource constraints and how much time each resource can realistically devote to our project.

Develop a task path by figuring out which tasks are dependent on other tasks.

Date develop our schedule by putting all tasks and estimates into a calendar showing how much time each task will take from start date to end.

Don’t forget to develop a cost baseline, which is a cost-by-time budget.

In this gallery you will find a six-step approach to creating the perfect project plan. Each slide will take the project manager through how to build a clear traffic system  for an IT project.

As an RTMS system will ultimately provide data for existing Traffic Information Centres (TICs), its data format

should preferably be based on an existing standard. A survey of today’s traffic-information protocols led to

the choice of the GATS standard (Global Automotive Telematics Standard), developed for cell-phone SMS

communication, as the baseline. An adapted GATS protocol was therefore designed to allow the selection of

relevant information elements and optimisation of the length and coding of individual information elements.

When many mobile units share a communication channel to a central station, a discipline has to be established

for efficient sharing of that channel. In line with the Aberdeen study, three possible access schemes were

investigated:

– Random-access mode (event driven): the vehicle transmits data about traffic events whenever they occur.

The advantage is that transmission only takes place when an event of interest occurs. The drawback is the

risk of collision of transmissions from different mobiles, reducing the effective capacity of the communication

channel.

– Polled random-access mode (TIC driven): a subset of vehicles are invited to transmit if they meet certain

conditions. For example, vehicles within a defined geographical region that are not already participating

in data collection may be invited to join the system. The potential size of the addressed community must

be adapted dynamically to avoid congesting or starving the channel.

– Addressed poll mode (fully coordinated access): the central system rigidly controls access by sending

regular requests for information to specific vehicles, which return their replies in a specified time slot. This

mode is collision-free, but involves complex management in deciding which vehicles to poll in order to

make optimum use of the limited communication capacity available.

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Visual surveillance of dynamic objects, particularly vehicles on the road, has been, over the past decade, an active research topic in computer vision and intelligent transportation systems communities. In the context of traffic monitoring, important advances have been achieved in environment modeling, vehicle detection, tracking, and behavior analysis. This paper is a survey that addresses particularly the issues related to vehicle monitoring with cameras at road intersections. In fact, the latter has variable architectures and represents a critical area in traffic. Accidents at intersections are extremely dangerous, and most of them are caused by drivers' errors. Several projects have been carried out to enhance the safety of drivers in the special context of intersections. In this paper, we provide an overview of vehicle perception systems at road intersections and representative related data sets. The reader is then given an introductory overview of general vision-based vehicle monitoring approaches. Subsequently and above all, we present a review of studies related to vehicle detection and tracking in intersection-like scenarios. Regarding intersection monitoring, we distinguish and compare roadside (pole-mounted, stationary) and in-vehicle (mobile platforms) systems. Then, we focus on camera-based roadside monitoring systems, with special attention to omnidirectional setups. Finally, we present possible research directions that are likely to improve the performance of vehicle detection and tracking at intersections.