Integrated Operation of ATMS and Environmental System: A Case Study

This technical paper presents an overview of the Pinellas County Smart Traffic Adaptive Control Software system (Smart Tracs). The Pinellas Smart Tracs is one of very few efforts in North America to deploy intelligent transportation system (ITS) from the interstate and integrate those components onto the arterial roadways to operate the surface transportation system more efficiently. This state-of-the-art Arterial ITS system has been successfully installed on four of the County’s most congested corridors and has been fully operational since October 2006. Cost Benefit Analysis of the initial system implementation shown the viability of Arterial ITS for regional traffic management including reductions in stops, delays, air pollutants and accidents. As a result, the County has expanded adaptive control network and installed new air pollution monitoring sensors for the wide-area coverage of the parallel arterials. Initial evaluation has shown significant improvement in mobility along the corridors with reductions in air pollutants.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Intelligent Transportation Society of America.
• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

  1100 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor
  Washington, DC  United States  20036
• Authors:
  • Jacobs, Kenneth A
  • Pooran, Farhad
• Conference:
  • 19th ITS World Congress
  • Location: Vienna , Austria
  • Date: 2012-10-22 to 2012-10-26
• Publication Date: 2012

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: CD-ROM; Photos;
• Pagination: 5p
• Monograph Title: 19th ITS World Congress, Vienna, Austria, 22 to 26 October 2012

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Adaptive control; Advanced traffic management systems; Arterial highways; Environmental impacts; Highway traffic control; Integrated systems; Intelligent transportation systems; Regional transportation
• Geographic Terms: Pinellas County (Florida)
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01501765
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 23 2013 7:52AM