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Transportation Management Centers (TMCs) are focal points for monitoring and operating traffic management systems. As new technologies are developed through research in Intelligent-Vehicle- Highway Systems (IVHS), these TMCs will assume increasingly more importance as command and control centers...
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The objective of this study is to develop a methodology for incident duration prediction. The authors first developed an understanding of factors that influence incident duration. A series of truncated regression models is used to predict incident duration. The models account for the fact that...
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This research investigates methodologies for fusing and further processing real-time road traffic data collected by probe vehicles and induction loop detectors in order to obtain relevant traffic information that is essential for effective deployment of Advanced Traffic Management Information...
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This document presents the final report on a project focusing on new traffic sensor technology, mainly video cameras, for traffic surveillance and detection. It describes a Transportation Management Center (TMC), designed for the collation and computation of multi-site statistics. The report...
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In this report, the authors describe a method of collecting real-time traffic data from probe vehicles automatically sending traffic reports to one or m ore base stations, connected to a traffic center by a wired communications network. Analyzing and computing road traffic and message traffic...
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The introduction of electronic toll collection on the eight bridges crossing San Francisco Bay has provided the means for a relatively simple and low cost system for measuring travel times on many Bay Area bridges and roads. The toll tags sued for electronic toll collection can be read by...
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This report describes the results of the PATH/Caltrans-funded project Video-Base Signature Analysis and Tracking (VSAT) System, Phase 1: Verification of Concept and Preliminary Testing. The VSAT System was conceived in 1995 by Loragen Systems, of Glendale, California, as a means for...
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A method for determining how to develop the most effective traffic surveillance investment program given available resources is developed. The complicated decision structure for deciding where and when to install traffic surveillance and what type of surveillance to install is broken down into a...
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