TAP INTO TRIP: MISSOURI'S ITS SHOWCASE

The community of Branson, MO, USA recently launched Branson TRIP (Travel and Recreation Program), a unique rural Intelligent Transport System (ITS) programme. This small town has rapidly growing entertainment and tourist industries, leading to phenomenal traffic growth. Although the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) and the City of Branson have been working hard to keep up with this growth, congestion remained a problem, and TRIP was introduced to relieve it. It has components such as sensors, variable message signs (VMS), kiosks, video cameras, highway advisory radio, and the Internet, together with an unusual combination of financing and operational partners. These partnerships enabled TRIP to be funded in October 1997, announced in the next month, and launched in June 1998. TRIP's daily, weekly and monthly tourist counts help the city to predict the revenue from tourism in any given season. Drivers now regard TRIP as providing 'travel miracles' to the area. The sensors used in its 11 square mile area include inductive loops and 3M Canoga Model 800 Detectors. One Road Traffic Microwave Sensor (RTMS) currently checks traffic counts and speeds. The local Internet Web site is especially useful. TRIP shows that ITS can help all drivers to find the quickest and easiest routes to their destinations.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Federal Highway Administration

  Office of International Programs, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Image Sensing Systems, Inc.

  ,    

  Fortran Traffic Systems

  470 Midwest Road
  Toronto, Ontario M1P 4Y5  Canada 

  University of Massachusetts, Amherst

  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  130 Natural Resources Road
  Amherst, MA  United States  01003

  Grafe und Unzer GmbH

  ,    

  SIRIT Technologies Inc.

  ,    

  TRANSCOM (Program : New York & New Jersey)

  ,    

  Michigan Department of Transportation

  State Transportation Building, 425 West Ottawa Street, P.O. Box 30050
  Lansing, MI  United States  48909

  Odetics, Inc.

  ,    

  Booz, Allen & Hamilton

  ,    

  Geopak TMS

  ,    

  Texas Department of Transportation

  Ecological Resources Management Branch, Environmental Affairs Division, 11th and Brazos Streets
  Austin, TX  United States  78701

  Southwest Research Institute

  6220 Culebra Road, P.O. Drawer 28510
  San Antonio, TX  United States  78228-0510

  Las Vegas Area Computer Traffic System Project

  ,    

  Ruetz Technologies

  ,    

  ATX Technologies

  ,    

  Pacific Rim Resources

  ,    

  Kimley-Horn and Associates, Incorporated

  ,    

  Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  Department of Energy
  Oak Ridge, TN  United States  37831

  Denmark. Vejdirektoratet

  ,    

  Systor Trondheim AS

  ,    

  Goteborg (Sweden). Trafikkontoret

  ,    

  iMPath Networks

  ,    

  Viggen Corporation

  ,    

  Missouri Department of Transportation

  P.O. Box 270
  Jefferson City, MO  United States  65102

  Science Applications International Corporation

  Moffett Field, CA  United States 

  Perceptics Corporation

  ,    

  Indiana Department of Transportation

  100 N Senate Avenue
  Indianapolis, IN  United States  46204

  Hewlett-Packard Company

  ,    

  Traficon NV

  ,    
• Authors:
  • BRUECK, N
• Publication Date: 1998

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 96-100
• Serial:
  • Traffic Technology International
  • Publisher: AutoIntermediates Limited
  • ISSN: 1356-9252
  • Serial URL: http://www.ukipme.com/mag_traffic.htm

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Districts and authorities; Driver information systems; Intelligent transportation systems; Publicity; Radio; Recreation; Sensors; Tourism; Traffic congestion; Transportation departments; Urban areas; Variable message signs; Video cameras
• Uncontrolled Terms: Traffic relief
• Geographic Terms: United States
• ITRD Terms: 6750: Camera; 8531: Case study; 8573: Publicity; 6947: Radio; 9142: Recreation; 6120: Sensor; 9143: Tourism; 631: Traffic relief; 253: Transport authority; 313: Urban area; 8122: USA; 574: Variable message sign
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00757423
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Dec 17 1998 12:00AM