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Evaluation of the Bay Area Incident Response System (BAIRS)

Mauch, Michael
Chung, Koohong
Ahn, Soyoung
Skabardonis, Alexander
2006

The Bay Area Incident Response System (BAIRS) is an integrated Web and GIS based incident tracking system that provides tools to improve California’s Department of Transportation (Caltrans) incident management capabilities. Currently, BAIRS aids District 4 Maintenance respond to and track over 33,000 incidents per year throughout the San Francisco Bay area.The report presents the findings from the evaluation of the BAIRS system based on field data on incidents and traffic conditions. Through the implementation of BAIRS, incident response and clearance times were reduced by about 15%....

San Diego I-15 Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) System: Stage II (Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation)

Miller, Mark A.
Skabardonis, Alexander
2010

This report describes the Stage II work –Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation(AMS) – to date of the US Department of Transportation’s (DOT) federally-sponsored Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) Program for the I-15 Corridor in San Diego County, California, between State Route 163in the city of San Diego and State Route 78 in the city of Escondido. Stage II of the federal ICM Program involves performing the analysis, modeling, and simulation work for the I-15 corridor in San Diego County. Major tasks in Stage II consist of data collection, tools and software support, models validation and...

The Impact of Intelligent Transportation Systems on Bus Driver Effectiveness

Bailey, Diane E.
Hall, Randolph
1997

This paper examines the potential for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) to improve bus driver effectiveness. Analysis of data gathered reveals the unlikelihood of improvement of individual bus driver effectiveness measures. The authors determined that the most visible benefits were seen in the automatic processing of information related to transferring passengers and in the increased speed with which emergency and maintenance calls can be handled.

The Development of an Accident Database to Structure Land Use Regulations in Airport Runway Approach Zones

Cooper, Douglas L.
Gillen, David
1993

This report presents and describes 400 aviation accidents which occurred within five miles of an airport. Section 2 contains a description of the development of the database and a discussion of the criteria used in selecting accidents for the database. Section 3 provides a description of the database itself as well as a set of statistics that provide a comprehensive overview of the accidents. A set of aircraft accident contours developed from the accident data points is presented in section 4. The purpose of these contours is to provide a picture of the distribution of accidents over space...

The Development of an Accident Database to Structure Land Use Regulations in Airport Runway Approach Zones Part II

Cooper, Douglas L.
Chira-chavala, T.
1998

This report presents and describes the expanded database containing 873 aviation accidents which occurred within five miles of an airport. Section 2 contains a description of the development of the database and a discussion of the criteria used in selecting accidents for the database. Section 3 provides a description of the database itself as well as a set of statistics that provide a comprehensive overview of the accidents. A set of aircraft accident scatter plots developed from the accident data points is presented in section 4. The purpose of these plots is to provide a picture of the...

The Analysis of Right-of-Way for Different Road Users in China: Passing-Passenger-Unit Versus Passenger-Car-Unit

Xiong, Wen, Professor
Zhang, Yuanyuan, PhD
Chen, Xiaohong, Professor
Jiang, Chao
2014

Being a public resource, the roadway space was distributed between different road users based on the Passenger-Car-Unit (PCU) concept. However, this concept tends to under estimate the capacity of public transportation and non-motorized travel. To improve the traditional car-oriented design to become more human-oriented, this study proposed a Passing-passenger-unit (PPU) and the method to observe the PPU in roadway level and area level. The PPU data were collected for urban arterials and residential areas in China to test the method and to compare the right-of-way distribution at different...

Field Evaluation of San Pablo Corridor Transit Signal Priority (TSP) System

Zhou, Kun
Li, Meng
Johnston, Scott
Zhang, Wei-Bin
Sun, Sonja
Leung, Kai
Lau, James
Chiu, Paul
2008

This document reports the results of the evaluation of the Transit Signal Priority currently under operation at AC Transit. The paper discusses about the Measure of Effectiveness and a quantitative evaluation method for TSP. It reports the data collected and analysis conducted of the concerned TSP system and presented the evaluation results.

Vehicle/Driver Monitoring for Enhanced Safety of Transit Buses

Shi, Mingyu
Tomizuka, Masayoshi
2007

This report documents the findings of the study “Vehicle/Driver Monitoring for Enhanced Safety of Transit Buses” conducted as part of the PATH project TO5400. The goal of study TO5400 is todesign and implementation of a reliable vehicle/driver monitoring system with aim to enhance driving safety of transit buses.The main objectives of the project are: (1) to identify a simply model that best describes the driving patterns of human drivers, and (2) to develop an algorithm which can generate warning messages when there is a provision of danger.In this study, it is assumed that the driver...

Automated Truck Platoon Control

Lu, Xiao-Yun
Shladover, Steven E.
2011

This report shows a successful application of 5.9 GHz DSRC with 100 ms update intervals to coordinate the automatic longitudinal control of a platoon of three Class 8 tractor-trailer trucks. The trucks were tested not only in constant-speed cruising conditions, but also through acceleration and deceleration profiles, up and down grades, and in platoon join and split maneuvers using the DSRC coordination. These tests showed acceptable vehicle following accuracy, ride quality and platoon stability. The gaps between the trucks were varied between 10 m and 4 m to evaluate the effects of...

Calibration of VISSIM for a Congested Freeway

Gomes, Gabriel
May, Adolf
Horowitz, Roberto
2004

A procedure for constructing and calibrating a detailed model of a freeway using VISSIM is presented and applied to a 15-mile stretch of I-210 West in Pasadena, California. This test site provides several challenges for microscopic modeling: an HOV lane with an intermittent barrier, a heavy freeway connector, 20 metered onramps with and without HOV bypass lanes, and three interacting bottlenecks. Field data used as input to the model was compiled from two separate sources: loop-detectors on the onramps and mainline (PeMS), and a manual survey of onramps and offramps. Gaps in both sources...