System Management and Monitoring - Temporal Evaluation of Freeway Management Systems

Virtually every major metropolitan area in the United States has a traffic monitoring system to help increase traffic throughput, decrease the number of accidents, decrease the time required to clear incidents that disrupt flow, and provide travelers information. Almost all of these systems are myopic, focusing strictly on current conditions. Yet the data collected by the sensors can provide considerable information when viewed over time. The goal of this study is to investigate and demonstrate several applications that employ traffic monitoring system data over time to show the added benefit of the given system. Many of these tools have been demonstrated in real time using data from the Columbus Metropolitan Freeway Management System (CMFMS), the intelligent freeway management system in the greater Columbus, Ohio area.

• Corporate Authors:

  Midwest Regional University Transportation Center

  University of Wisconsin
  2205 Engineering Hall, 1415 Engineering Drive, Room 272
  Madison, WI  United States  53706

  Research and Special Programs Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Coifman, Benjamin
  • Redmill, Keith
  • 0000-0003-1332-1332
  • Merry, Carolyn
• Publication Date: 2005-5-30

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 35p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Applications; Freeway management systems; Real time information; Traffic data; Traffic surveillance
• Geographic Terms: Columbus (Ohio)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Research; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01015045
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: MRUTC 04-02
• Contract Numbers: DTRS 99-G-0005 (Grant)
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jan 3 2006 11:51AM