Using Commercial Vehicle Telematics as a Highway Probe Data Source

The purpose of this technical paper is to discuss the project advanced by Calmar Holdings and Telematics LLC in partnership with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to explore the potential of using telemetry data as a source of traffic information. These data, already collected by commercial vehicle operators for fleet management purposes, are being used to determine traffic and highway conditions for use by transportation agencies. This research and development effort determined that it is possible to use privately collected and owned real-time fleet telemetry data to determine highway and traffic throughout the entire highway network where and when a non trivial population of commercial vehicles are present. In addition, commercial vehicle telematics holds vast potential for various transportation applications involving transportation planning, traffic management and highway operations.

• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

  1100 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor
  Washington, DC  United States  20036
• Authors:
  • Sheckler, Ross
  • McDonough, Richard T
  • Tario, Joseph D
• Conference:
  • 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems and ITS America's 2008 Annual Meeting
  • Location: New York NY, United States
  • Date: 2008-11-16 to 2008-11-20
• Publication Date: 2008

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Figures; Maps; Photos; Tables;
• Pagination: 11p
• Monograph Title: ITS Connections: Saving Time. Saving Lives

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Commercial vehicle operations; Data collection; Driver information systems; Fleet management; Highway operations; Probe vehicles; Real time information; Telematics
• Geographic Terms: New York (State)
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01146151
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 15 2009 3:01PM