T-REX COMES TO LIFE: DENVER'S MONSTER OF A PROJECT

This article reports on the communications technology employed in the T-REX project in the urban area of Denver, in the state of Colorado, USA. T-REX is to improve and expand highway and public transport capacity. One portion of this project involves low-power sensors for traffic monitoring on arterial roads surrounding the construction area to detect congestion, using internet protocols for communication to the traffic manangement centre. The size of the network caused some delay in communication but software tools were developed to overcome this. Levels of congestion are made publicly available on a web site. For the covering abstract see ITRD E118381.

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  Abinger House, Church Street
  Dorking, Surrey  United Kingdom  RH4 1DF
• Authors:
  • ANDERSON, C A
  • Candey, D G
• Publication Date: 2003

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 102-5
• Serial:
  • TRAFFIC TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL 2003. THE 2003 INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF ADVANCED TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT
  • Publisher: UK and International Press
  • ISSN: 1356-9252

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Communications; Driver information systems; Incident detection; Intelligent transportation systems; Internet; Road construction; Sensors; Surveillance; Traffic congestion; Urban areas
• Geographic Terms: United States
• ITRD Terms: 9098: Communication; 632: Congestion (traffic); 8763: Driver information; 1632: Incident detection; 8735: Intelligent transport system; 8585: Internet; 3665: Road construction; 6120: Sensor; 9101: Surveillance; 313: Urban area; 8122: USA
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00962692
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Sep 3 2003 12:00AM