DEVELOPMENT OF A SELF-POWERED VEHICLE DETECTOR

The Self-Powered Vehicle Detector was designed to detect reliably vehicles passing through a desired surveillance zone under all environmental conditions from its fixed location beneath the roadway. The magnetic signature of the detected vehicle can then be telemetered via a radio frequency link to a roadside traffic instrumentation enclosure for vehicle counting or traffic control. This final report covers all SPVD research and development in seven major areas of investigation: Magnetometer development, sensor system electronics, telemetry link encoder/decoder, telemetry link oscillator/transmitter, antenna, telemetry receiver and battery evaluations, and mechanical component design and development.

• Corporate Authors:

  Naval Surface Weapons Center

  White Oak Laboratories
  Silver Spring, MD  United States  20901

  Federal Highway Administration

  Office of Research and Development, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Publication Date: 1978-10

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 229 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic vehicle monitoring; Magnetic detectors; Traffic control; Traffic counting; Transmission; Vehicle detectors
• Old TRIS Terms: Radio transmission
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00393488
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: DOT-I-84-13 Revision
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Mar 29 1985 12:00AM