ADVANTAGE I-75 MAINLINE AUTOMATED CLEARANCE SYSTEM FINAL REPORT. PART 1: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The Advantage I-75 Mainline Automated Clearance System Project (MACS) demonstrates and evaluates the feasibility of electronic clearance at weigh stations along the Interstate Highway 75 corridor. The test involves participants from government and industry. Government participants include the states of Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, the Province of Ontario, Canada, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), and Transport Canada. Industry participants include the American Trucking Associations, the National Private Truck Council, the Ontario Trucking Association, state trucking associations along the corridor, and individual motor carriers who travel along the corridor. The Kentucky Transportation Center at the University of Kentucky serves as the project's research and operations center on behalf of the lead state of Kentucky. The Center for Transportation Research and Education (CTRE) at Iowa State University serves as the evaluator of the project. The evaluation consists of four tests to determine the effectiveness of electronic clearance of commercial vehicles at weigh stations. These tests are a fuel consumption test, a weigh station throughput test, a simulation model, and an examination of jurisdictional issues. A report evaluating the Advantage I-75 system prepared by the University of Kentucky, Kentucky Transportation Center with input from CTRE, is submitted separately. The vision of the Advantage I-75 program was to incorporate existing technologies into an Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) operational setting that provides an initial step in the process of adapting the nation's highway system to accommodate the increased demands placed on it. The objective of the Advantage I-75 MACS operational test is to permit transponder-equipped trucks to travel any segment of the I-75 and Highway 401 corridor at mainline speeds while being cleared to bypass the weigh stations along the corridor.

• Record URL:
  • http://www.ctre.iastate.edu/reports/i75/1execsum.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  Iowa State University, Ames

  Center for Transportation Research and Education
  2711 South Loop Drive, Suite 4700
  Ames, IA  United States  50010-8664

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • McCall, B
  • Kroeger, D
  • Kamyab, A
  • Stern, H
• Publication Date: 1998-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 12 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automated clearance; Automation; Commercial vehicles; Fuel consumption; Intelligent transportation systems; Motor carriers; Simulation; Transponders; Trucks; Weigh stations
• Uncontrolled Terms: Electronic clearance at weigh stations; Jurisdiction; Throughput
• Subject Areas: Energy; Highways; Motor Carriers; Operations and Traffic Management; Terminals and Facilities; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00770440
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Oct 7 1999 12:00AM