Efficient Utilization of the Existing ITS System and the Viability of a Proactive Traffic Management System for the Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority System

The rapid development of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) has triggered new traffic detection technologies to capture the traffic flow characteristics. The data acquired from these systems provide traffic operators and researchers with different perspectives to evaluate their system, pinpoint the potential problems and make targeted improvement. This report documents the efforts to explore the efficient utilization of the ITS systems on the expressway network operated by Central Florida Expressway Authority (CFX). On CFX's system, multiple ITS systems are in deployment. In this report, detailed work using the traffic data from these existing ITS systems has been conducted to identify the potential applications of current ITS systems on CFX's expressways. The applications include evaluation of current expressway operation and potential improvement using the ITS systems. In addition, since traffic safety is another important indicator of system performance and is closely related to operation. Traffic safety performance on the expressways has also been examined.

• Record URL:
  https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/62000/62100/62143/EfficientUtilizationoftheExistingITSSystem_MohamedAbdelAty.pdf
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This document was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program.
• Corporate Authors:

  University of Central Florida, Orlando

  Center for Advanced Transportation Systems Simulation
  4000 Central Florida Boulevard, P.O. Box 162450
  Orlando, FL  United States  32816-2450

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  Department of Transportation
  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Abdel-Aty, Mohamed
  • Radwan, Essam
  • Shi, Qi
  • Wang, Ling
  • 0000-0001-7901-3995
• Publication Date: 2014-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Appendices; Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 247p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Expressways; Highway operations; Highway traffic control; Intelligent transportation systems; Traffic data; Traffic flow
• Identifier Terms: Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01642805
• Record Type: Publication
• Contract Numbers: DTRT12GUTC12
• Files: UTC, NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Jul 31 2017 4:34PM