VEHICLE DETECTION. PHASE I: SPVD DEVELOPMENT

Vehicle detectors are key components of all street and freeway traffic control and surveillance systems. Detector requirements for these applications include: low cost, accurate detection, minimum installation time and cost, reliable under all environmental conditions, low maintenance and calibration requirements, and ability to detect all vehicles on any standard roadway surface. An advanced vehicle detector concept called the Self-Powered Vehicle Detector (SPVD) was examined by this project. The SPVD is a new traffic detector consisting of a magnetometer sensor, RF communication link, and self-contained battery source. It is packaged into a small cylinder designed to be placed in roadway bore holes, completely under the roadway surface. Vehicles are detected and this information is transmitted by RF communication to a receiver in a traffic control enclosure up to 500 feet distant. SPVD operational life-time is at least one year. The SPVD is an advanced new approach to reducing installation cost. Its feasibility was proven using three SPVD Engineering models in this project. /FHWA/

• Record URL:
  • https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/41886
• Supplemental Notes:
  • See also Phase 2, PB-244 135.
• Corporate Authors:

  Honeywell, Incorporated

  270 Fourth Avenue
  Minneapolis, MN  United States  55408

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Wick, D O
  • Lubke, R A
• Publication Date: 1975-1

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Pagination: 98 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accuracy; Costs; Detectors; Ground vehicles; Highway traffic control; Highways; Magnetic detectors; Magnetometers; Maintenance; Radio links; Reliability; Streets; Traffic control; Vehicle detectors
• Old TRIS Terms: Magnetic detection
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Operations and Traffic Management; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00092308
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-RD-75- 18 Final Rpt.
• Contract Numbers: FH-11-8149
• Files: NTIS, NTL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Nov 5 1976 12:00AM