Near Term Systemic projects were developed to be systemic in nature across the corridor. These systemic improvements address needs that occur in more than one Focus Area or relate to the adjacent highway network such as:

• Incident Management Strategies
• Intelligent Transportation System (ITS)/ ​Transportation Systems Management & Operations (TSMO)/
  Traffic Operations (fully consistent with the recently completed Eastern Regional Traffic
  Management Center (RTMC) and Regional Operations Plan (ROP))
• Signing and Pavement Marking Improvements
• Acceleration and Deceleration Lane Lengthening

These projects originated in the Eastern ROP and other studies that the MPOs have been a part of such as Greater Harrisburg Area Susquehanna River Bridges Study (GHASRB).

Meetings were held with PennDOT District subject matter experts to refine project descriptions and details. Four Near Term Systemic project profiles were developed to identify project descriptions, locations, and refined programming level estimates.