THE SWIFT TRAFFIC WORKSTATION

This paper describes a Traffic WorkStation (TWS) developed for the Seattle Wide-area Information for Travelers (SWIFT) Field Operational Test (FOT) now being implemented in Seattle, Washington. The TWS is designed to provide a convenient means to both manually and automatically enter real-time traveler information from a variety of digital and analog sources, and to convert that information into standardized, compressed, geocoded, digital formats for transmission over a wireless communications system for receipt and display by portable and mobile devices. While the specific implementation described here is for SWIFT, the TWS design can be readily adapted to a wide variety of wireless and wired communications systems serving many types of portable, mobile, and on-line traveler information systems, services, and devices.

• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

  1100 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor
  Washington, DC  United States  20036
• Authors:
  • Sweeney, L E
  • Chow, W
• Conference:
  • Intelligent Transportation: Realizing the Benefits. Proceedings of the 1996 Annual Meeting of ITS America.
  • Location: Houston, TX
  • Date: 1996-4-15 to 1996-4-18
• Publication Date: 1996

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: p. 313-322

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Communication systems; Driver information systems; Passenger information systems; Real time control; Real time data processing; Route guidance; Traveler information and communication systems
• Geographic Terms: Seattle (Washington)
• Old TRIS Terms: Intelligent information systems
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00724746
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 14 1996 12:00AM