Blacksburg instrumented city traffic signal data acquisition system

Author

Rakha, Hesham ; Sidky, Ahmed

Author_Institution

Dept. of Civil & Environ. Eng., Virginia Tech., Charlottesville, VA, USA

fYear

2004

fDate

3-6 Oct. 2004

Firstpage

130

Lastpage

135

Abstract

This paper describes one of the major components of the Blacksburg prototype instrumented city, namely the traffic signal data acquisition system (TSDAS). The TSDAS gathers traffic signal, traffic volume, and measure of effectiveness data from over 20 signalized intersections within the Blacksburg area. The TSDAS is designed in a modular fashion in order to facilitate system expansion. The TSDAS provides a unique real-life environment for testing alternative advanced traffic management system (ATMS) applications including adaptive traffic signal control and transit priority strategies.

Keywords

adaptive control; data acquisition; signal detection; traffic control; traffic engineering computing; Blacksburg prototype instrumented city; adaptive traffic signal control; advanced traffic management system; signalized intersections; traffic signal data acquisition system; Adaptive control; Area measurement; Cities and towns; Data acquisition; Environmental management; Instruments; Programmable control; Prototypes; System testing; Volume measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2004. Proceedings. The 7th International IEEE Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8500-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITSC.2004.1398884

Filename

1398884