Research
State & International Research
Colorado
Research/Project Description
Denver Testbed:VII Tacticle deployments
The objective of the Denver E-470 test is to present and prove Multi Lane Free Flow (MLFF / ORT) high performance tolling and enforcement based on Kapsch TrafficCom’s 5.9 DSRC technology. The installation is an end-to-end solution consisting of Road Side Equipment (RSE), a Road Side Cabinet (RSC) and a Server unit. RSE includes the transceiver for 5.9 GHz DSRC communication with On Board Unit`s (OBU) installed in vehicles participating at the test, the Lane Cameras (for front and rear pictures) with illumination units, overview Cameras with external IR-Flashes and the Laser Unit`s.
The RSC includes the Traffic Laser Controller, Camera Controller, Transceiver Controller, Station Controller and other sub components. Due to the scenario selected the performance of the commercial E-470 installation will be easily comparable with the 5.9 MLFF solution of Kapsch. The Kapsch solution will enable a tactical/reverse deployment of the 5.9 DSRC technology because:
1) It will provide the DOTs with a pragmatic, step by step roll-out model for VII that reduces complexity
2) it will provide the badly needed funds for upgrading the road infrastructure by leveraging tolling as mega-application and combining it with a few selected "stage one" applications - instead of relying on the government to finance the program for all the many safety applications by itself.
Sponsoring Organizations/Researchers
- E-470 Public Highway Authority
- Kapsch TrafficCom, System DeveloperB
- Independent Test & Verification, OmniAir Consortium, Inc.
Contact
- Ed DeLozier, E-470 Executive Director, [email protected]
- Tugrul Güner, Project Manager, Kapsch TrafficCom, Phone +43 (0)50 811 2210
- Timothy McGuckin, Executive Director,
OmniAir Consortium, Inc.
T 202-756-0012
M 202-276-8483
Time Frame
To be confirmedResearch/Project Description
Vehicle Integration Applications for Improving Surface Transportation Weather Services:
This effort focuses on conducting applied research aimed at acquiring, analyzing, and processing VII-enabled data, with the ultimate goal of improving the capacity to diagnose and forecast roadway conditions, generating roadway-specific alerts and warnings, and enabling the development of new weather-related tools and technologies that will support the decisions of surface transportation stakeholders.
A key element of this effort will be the development of a Weather Data Translator (WDT) demonstration system that will be capable of ingesting, parsing, processing and archiving vehicle-based probe data from VII testbed(s), along with relevant supplemental weather and road condition data. The system will generate quality checked derived observations for use by Clarus, as well as other systems or applications. Such derived observations should prove to be extremely useful in assessing specific aspects of road conditions and related road weather.
Sponsoring Organizations/Researchers
- USDOT FHWA Road Weather Management Program
Contacts
- Kevin Petty, National Center for Atmospheric Research, 303-497-2705