Rural ITS Safety Solution Systems (RITSS)

It is clear that over the years, there have been numerous research projects and all have indicated the merits of dynamic warning systems. It is the goal of this project to move these life saving warning systems from the research environment to reality. The level of innovation required for this project stems from the idea of quickly moving from system research to system deployment, in a cost effective manner. This project will leverage the Intersection Warning System project’s innovative approach to expedite the development of the proposed systems. The project proposes the field testing of these systems under several different scenarios to better determine the overall effectiveness. The systems are designed with a battery that has a typical minimum useful life of five to seven years. The remaining system components are solid state and have a much longer service life. All configuration and setup is accomplished using a laptop wireless service program. The systems use wireless diagnostic routines, which allow the maintainer to simply drive up and use a laptop to perform service inspections. The systems are modular, so replacing system components is a matter of one or two connectors and fasteners to perform the field exchange. As a result of the ease of service and the flexibility of the modular design, first level of service can be performed with local staff, with minimal training.

• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

  1100 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor
  Washington, DC  United States  20036
• Authors:
  • Nookala, Marthand
  • Foderberg, Dennis
• Conference:
  • ITS America 20th Annual Meeting & Exposition
  • Location: Houston TX, United States
  • Date: 2010-5-3 to 2010-5-5
• Publication Date: 2010

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Pagination: 7p
• Monograph Title: ITS America 20th Annual Meeting & Exposition

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Field tests; Intelligent transportation systems; Intersections; Level of service; Modular structures; Rural areas; Rural transit; Traffic safety; Warning systems; Wireless communication systems
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01342853
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 23 2011 9:07AM