ADOT- PTOC

[KD7JVRinAZ]

Besides having a trooper monitor the various freeway cameras, what other field activities is the Phx Traffic Ops Center responsible for? I thought I heard somebody check off on traffic on the 143. Maybe an ADOT enforcement unit?.....

 

[KB7MIB]

ADOT Enforcement should be on their own TG.

However, apparently, ADOT has reconfigured the ALERT units into Incident Response Units, and has changed the way they respond to incidents to shorten their response times. I'm hearing them respond to a lot of debris removal and motorist assist calls now.

And they've moved from TG 1102 to TG 1103. I don't know if that is short term or permanent, or if it's related to the changes with ALERT, or a separate change that happened coincidentally.

ADOT is supposed to be releasing a public notice on the change shortly.

This info was given to me as a response to a question I asked on the FB group, since I had noticed the changes on TG 1103.

John
Peoria

 

[Paysonscanner]

Besides having a trooper monitor the various freeway cameras, what other field activities is the Phx Traffic Ops Center responsible for? I thought I heard somebody check off on traffic on the 143. Maybe an ADOT enforcement unit?.....

I've listened to ADOT for years and before moving back to Arizona last November, listened to CalTrans while living in California for about 40 years. My late husband and I always had state DOT's in our scanners on road trips. When we traveled to Phoenix to visit my family having the Phoenix district of ADOT in our radios saved us a great deal of time several times. Like John mentioned when ALERT was sent to a scene the information was very pertinent. We could change our route based on what we heard prior to getting into major backups. Sometimes the ALERT people would chatter about exactly how to get around a major backup and when we followed their instructions hours were saved. The DOT employees are much more detailed in their reports of conditions to their traffic operations centers than highway patrols. In snow country, which we are mostly just on the edge of in Payson, listening to ADOT helps us keep up with what a storm is doing. Last winter when that late February storm hit the Rim Country ADOT traffic was not only good listening, but some of the best info we could get.