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Publication Number:  FHWA-HRT-12-054    Date:  December 2012
Publication Number: FHWA-HRT-12-054
Date: December 2012

 

Methodologies to Measure and Quantify Transportation Management Center Benefits: Final Synthesis Report

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[1] Review the scope of work for this report for additional information.

[2] Although not strictly needed for the detector to link relationships, figure 3 includes DMS in the domain definitions to facilitate the implementation of messaging using a common reference frame.

 

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