PMSS Project Details

Project ID:	FHWA-PROJ-11-0054
Project Name:	Use of Mobile Data for Weather-Responsive Traffic Management Models
Status:	Active
Contact:	Last Name: Alfelor First Name: Roemer Telephone: 202-366-9242 E-mail: roemer.alfelor@dot.gov
Organization:	Other Federal Highway Administration Office or Department of Transportation Modal Administration
Office:	Data not yet available
Team:	Not available
Roadmap/Focus area(s):	Not Applicable
Project Description:	With the rapid advancement in vehicle and communication technologies, transportation professionals will be able to attain important information from moving vehicles to study and address a wide range of issues. With funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation, there are several ongoing activities attempting to define, learn, and collect mobile data that are available currently and in the future. The primary objective of this research is to examine and gain a better understating of mobile data, current and in the future, that can be used to enhance the weather-responsive traffic management models.
Laboratories:	Not Applicable
Start Date:	July 19, 2011
End Date:	October 18, 2012
Funding Amount:	$138,503.00
FHWA Program Name:	Other
Goals:	The primary objective of this research is to examine and gain a better understating of mobile data, current and in the future, that can be used to enhance the weather-responsive traffic management models. Further, a set of procedures needs to be developed for incorporating mobile data to existing weather-responsive traffic management models and tools.
Project Type:	Offsite
Background Information:	Data not yet available
Test Methodology:	The test approach is to: (1) Evaluate sources of mobile data and implement a procedure to obtain a sample of mobile data. (2) Review various weather-responsive traffic management models and adjustment factors developed during the past several years under the Federal Highway Administration's Road Weather Management Program, and conduct an analysis on how mobile data can be incorporated into these weather-responsive traffic management (WRTM) models. (3) Develop procedures to demonstrate the process of incorporating mobile data to WRTM models and apply these procedures to at least one case study.
Other Information:	Data not yet available
Partners:	Northwestern University; Role(s): Technical SAIC; Role(s): Technical
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Fieldtest:	Data not yet available
Expected Benefits:	The expected benefit is to gain a better understating of mobile data, current and in the future, that can be used to enhance the weather-responsive traffic management models.
Deliverables:	Name: Final report and an inventory of mobile data. Product Type(s): Research report, Data Description: The deliverable is a professionally written final report that will capture the effort of all activities and future research direction, and an inventory of mobile datasets as part of this study. Audiences: Researchers, Traffic engineers, Federal Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center staff Secondary Audiences:
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Project Findings:	Data not yet available
FHWA Topics:	Road Operations and Congestion--Transportation Management
TRT Terms:	Operations Research Highway Traffic Control Weather Weather Conditions
FHWA Disciplines:	Operations
Subject Areas:	Operations and Traffic Management