SELECTING DIGITAL COMPUTER SIGNAL SYSTEMS

THIS REPORT INTRODUCES THE PRACTICING TRAFFIC ENGINEER TO COMPUTER TRAFFIC-SIGNAL-SYSTEM CAPABILITIES AND COSTS. IT PRESENTS COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS FOR FIXED TIME SYSTEMS, AS WELL AS DIGITAL COMPUTER SYSTEMS. DISCUSSIONS ARE PRESENTED ON TRAFFIC-SIGNAL-SYSTEM COMPONENTS, AND INCLUDE INFORMATION ON SURVEILLANCE, INTERSECTION HARDWARE, COMMUNICATION, AND CENTRAL COMPUTER CONTROL SUBSYSTEMS, AND AVAILABLE ALTERNATIVES. BENEFITS FROM EXISTING COMPUTER INSTALLATIONS INDICATE THE GENERAL DEGREE OF IMPROVEMENTS THAT CAN BE EXPECTED IN FUTURE INSTALLATIONS.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • RPT NO FHWA-RD-72-20
• Corporate Authors:

  Federal Highway Administration

  Office of Research, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Stockfisch, C R
• Publication Date: 1973

Media Info

• Pagination: 76 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Communications; Computer components; Evaluation; Information processing; Intersections; Pretimed traffic signal controllers; Traffic control; Traffic engineers; Traffic signal control systems
• Old TRIS Terms: Computer systems components; Traffic control systems
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00226834
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Apr 3 1974 12:00AM