A COMPREHENSIVE FIELD TEST AND EVALUATION OF AN ELECTRONIC SIGNPOST AVM SYSTEM. VOLUME II. APPENDIX

The application of Automatic Vehicle Monitoring (AVM) to enhance the management of mobile resources has, in recent years, become a subject of continued interest to all types of fleet vehicle operations. This report covers the activities of Phase I which involved the installation and test of a HI3 AVM System in the City of Philadelphia during the winter of 1976-1977. These tests represent the most extensive tests ever performed on an AVM system which can locate vehicles which operate either as fixed-route vehicles (transit) or as random-route vehicles (police, para-transit, taxi, etc.). Volume I of this report contains a description of all test configurations, test procedures, location algorithms, data processing, and test results. This Appendix contains the test log sheets, test data and detailed data processing results corresponding to all Phase I tests. Section 2 of this Appendix is an executive summary of the Phase I program. Section 3 contains pertinent random-route data and data processing results. Section 4 contains fixed-route data and data processing results. (Portions of this document are not fully legible)

• Supplemental Notes:
  • See also report dated Aug 77, PB-272 907.
• Corporate Authors:

  Hoffman Information Identification, Incorporated

  4323 Arden Drive
  El Monte, CA  United States  91734

  Transportation Systems Center

  55 Broadway, Kendall Square
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  Urban Mass Transportation Administration

  400 7th Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Gruver, G W
• Publication Date: 1977-8

Media Info

• Pagination: 339 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic tracking; Evaluation; Field tests; Fleet management; Ground vehicles; Information processing; Location; Monitoring; Position fixing; Routes; Transportation operations
• Uncontrolled Terms: Data; Fleets; Transportation management
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00168917
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: RO-77-0026-Vol-2, UMTA-MA-06-0041-77-9
• Contract Numbers: DOT-TSC-1237
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jan 13 2002 12:00AM