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This report documents a practical work conducted at California PATH for developing a portable tool to be used at the control cabinet level to accurately diagnose any fault(s) of a loop detection system (including loop circuits, loop cards, cable links, etc.), to check the detection accuracy, to deal with sensitivity of detector card, and to correct the faulty data. To achieve these functionalities at the low level, it is necessary to utilize an independent source as a baseline data to compare against the loop detection system output. Such a comparison also permits an evaluation of the loop...

This report presents appendices to the third, and final, phase of the Highway Electrification and Automation Technologies Regional Impacts Analysis Project (HE&A). The focus of Phase III report is the assessment of regional impacts associated with application of roadway electrification, and automation technologies to selected freeway sections in the Southern California region.

During the last decade considerable research and development efforts have been devoted to automating vehicles in an effort to improve safety and efficiency of vehicle following. While dedicated highways with fully automated vehicles is a far in the future objective, the introduction of semi-automated vehicles on current highways designed to operate with manually driven vehicles is a realistic near term objective. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects on traffic flow characteristics and environment when semi-automated vehicles with automatic vehicle following capability (in...

This document is a reference manual for the fsp and xfsp programs. The fsp program is a software tool used to interrogate the data that was collected during the Freeway Service Patrol Evaluation Project. The purpose of the program is to perform diagnostics on the data, generate error reports, and make plots of various pieces of data. The xfsp program is a graphical user interface to the fsp program. It allows the user to create the runfile and the incident filter that the fsp proram requires by pointing and clicking on various butons and widgets with the mouse.