URBAN CORRIDOR DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM MANHATTAN CBD-NEW JERSEY CORRIDOR. AUTOMATIC BUS IDENTIFICATION

The purpose of the Automatic Bus Identification Project was fourfold: to evaluate the performance of Automatic Vehicle Identification (AVI) Systems on buses in normal field operations; to consider the potential benefits of AVI for monitoring bus movements, including non-stop toll collection; to develop methods of coding and numbering that could be used as a standard for AVI systems; and to prepare specifications for an AVI system based on test results. Four manufacturers, all using low power radio frequency technology, participated in the project. The objectives of the project were met by conducting a two-phase test program. The first phase supplied road-side interrogators to monitor bus passage in a closed loop system. Data were transmitted over leased telephone lines to a computer located at a point about midway between the interrogation sites. The second phase was designed to provide a rigorous analysis of the performance of each AVI system.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Prepared in cooperation with Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Tunnels and Bridges Research Div. See also PB-220 535.
• Corporate Authors:

  Tri-State Transportation Commission

  100 Church Street
  New York, NY  United States  10007

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

  Tunnels and Bridges Department, 225 Park Avenue South, 18th Floor
  New York, NY  United States  10003-1604

  Urban Mass Transportation Administration

  400 7th Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Office of the Secretary of Transportation

  Office of Noise Abatement, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Publication Date: 1974-6

Media Info

• Pagination: 270 p.

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00080225
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: TS-7930-ABI Final Rpt.
• Contract Numbers: DOT-FH-11-7778
• Files: NTIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jan 29 1975 12:00AM