AUTOMATIC VEHICLE LOCATION (AVL) FOR MEASUREMENT OF CORRIDOR LEVEL-OF-SERVICE: THE MIAMI METHOD

In 1993, the City of Miami contracted with the Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR) to set up a field demonstration of the use of automatic vehicle location to measure vehicle operating speeds on the city's seventeen transportation corridors. CUTR set up a data gathering experiment which used data compiled from AVL "transponders" installed in the vehicles of 25 volunteer drivers. The technology vendor of the AVL system was AirTouch Teletrac, who donated the equipment for the field demonstration at minimal cost. The "Miami Experiment" ran from April 25 to August 15, 1994, recording over 5,000 vehicle trips. The vehicle's locations were recorded by the AirTouch Teletrac fleet management software FleetDirector(tm) at a workstation located at the City of Miami offices. FleetDirector(tm) wrote the vehicle location data to a file for 5-hour morning and afternoon peak periods on weekdays, plus a 4-hour period on Saturday.

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  • English

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  • Pagination: p. 243-247

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  • Accession Number: 00712617
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Files: TRIS
  • Created Date: Oct 23 1995 12:00AM