ITS--SAN ANTONIO MOVES OUT

An intelligent transportation system (ITS) in San Antonio, known as Trans Guide, promises to improve air quality, enhance safety, and reduce congestion and fuel consumption. This article describes San Antonio's increasingly cramped driving conditions and the 5 years of conceptual and construction work that resulted in the Trans Guide system. This advanced traffic management system (ATMS) uses sensors, alarms, video cameras, computers, and a control center to keep traffic moving. Transportation officials nationwide are monitoring the progress of this "smart highway" so that if the results are positive, similar traffic management technologies can be deployed in other states.

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• Corporate Authors:

  American Road & Transportation Builders Association

  ARTBA Building, 1219 28th Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20007-3389
• Authors:
  • Costantino, J
• Publication Date: 1995-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. 12-14
• Serial:
  • Transportation Builder
  • Volume: 7
  • Issue Number: 7
  • Publisher: American Road & Transportation Builders Association
  • ISSN: 1043-4054

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Advanced traffic management systems; Air quality; Computers; Control; Fuel consumption; Intelligent transportation systems; Safety; Sensors; Surveillance; Traffic congestion; Traffic flow
• Uncontrolled Terms: Video technology
• Geographic Terms: San Antonio (Texas)
• Old TRIS Terms: Control location
• Subject Areas: Energy; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00682529
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 8 1995 12:00AM