Freeway Performance Measurement System: Final Report

This report describes the Performance Measurement System (PeMS), a freeway performance measure system that extract information from real time and historical data. It summarizes the communication and software architecture, describes PeMS applications, and presents observations. It also contains an empirical study of congestion capacity, and ramp metering using PeMS.

• Record URL:
  http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/20p1j2w7
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/45788183
• Corporate Authors:

  University of California, Berkeley

  California PATH Program, Institute of Transportation Studies
  Richmond Field Station, 1357 South 46th Street
  Richmond, CA  United States  94804-4648

  University of California, Berkeley

  Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
  Berkeley, CA  United States  94720

  California Department of Transportation

  1120 N Street
  Sacramento, CA  United States  95814
• Authors:
  • Varaiya, P P
• Publication Date: 2001-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Pagination: 54 p.
• Serial:
  • PATH Working Paper
  • Publisher: University of California, Berkeley
  • ISSN: 1055-1417

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Freeways; Loop detectors; Traffic data; Traffic flow; Travel time
• Identifier Terms: Performance Measurement System (Database)
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT PLANNING;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00810242
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Report/Paper Numbers: UCB-ITS-PWP-2001-1
• Files: PATH, CALTRANS, TRIS, ATRI, STATEDOT
• Created Date: May 30 2001 12:00AM