SIDE COLLISION WARNING SYSTEM OPERATIONAL TEST EVALUATION

In conjunction with the Federal Transit Administration's (FTA) Transit Intelligent Vehicle Initiative (IVI), the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) sponsored the deployment, operational test and independent evaluation of bus side collision warning systems (SCWS). The operational test involved 100 full sized transit buses operated by the Port Authority of Allegheny County from their East Liberty Division. This project represented the largest operational test conducted to date of IVI technology on public transit. The FTA's goal is to have commercially viable transit CWS within the next three years.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Full conference proceedings available on CD-ROM.
• Corporate Authors:

  Federal Transit Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Conference:
  • Technical Information on Transit IVI Projects
  • Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
  • Date: 2002-10-28 to 2002-10-29
• Publication Date: 2002

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 182p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash avoidance systems; Deployment; Intelligent vehicles; Performance evaluations; Side crashes; Technology assessment; Transit buses
• Identifier Terms: Intelligent Vehicle Initiative
• Uncontrolled Terms: Collision warning systems
• Geographic Terms: Allegheny County (Pennsylvania)
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00936282
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jan 3 2003 12:00AM