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Sponsor: Caltrans

Testbed & TMC-on-Line Implementation & Evaluation of Neural Network Automated Incident Detection Algorithms

Status

In Progress

Project Timeline

July 1, 1997 - June 30, 2000

Principal Investigator

Stephen Ritchie

Sponsor, Program

Caltrans // ATMS Testbed

Team Departmental Affiliation

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Advanced Transportation Management Systems Testbed Research Program (Continuation)

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

January 15, 1993 - December 31, 1996

Principal Investigator

Will Recker

Team Departmental Affiliation

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Development, Testing and Evaluation of Advanced Techniques for Freeway Incident Detection

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

November 1, 1991 - June 30, 1997

Principal Investigator

Stephen Ritchie

Sponsor, Program

Caltrans // PATH

Team Departmental Affiliation

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Section-Related Measures of Traffic System Performance

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

January 1, 1996 - December 31, 1997

Principal Investigator

Stephen Ritchie

Sponsor, Program

Caltrans // PATH

Team Departmental Affiliation

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Automated Video Incident Detection System

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

April 1, 2015 - March 30, 2017

Principal Investigator

Will Recker

Project Team

Craig Rindt, James Marca

Sponsor & Award Number

Caltrans: 65A0541

Areas of Expertise

Infrastructure Delivery, Operations, & Resilience Intelligent Transportation Systems, Emerging Technologies, & Big Data

Team Departmental Affiliation

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Project Summary

We propose to evaluate the potential of Automated Video Incident Detection (AVID) systems to improve incident identification and response times. Our experience working with TMC operations suggests that TMC operators tend to have developed a level of efficiency with existing processes such that the introduction of new tools and techniques---no matter the technical potential---can actually disrupt existing processes leading to less efficiency overall. We will therefore proceed with a particular eye on how these AVID systems can be directly integrated into existing TMC processes with a minimum of disruption. At the end of the project, we will have deployed a pilot implementation that demonstrates how a selected AVID system can be integrated into TMC processes and will evaluate the impact this system has on the measured delays of particular classes of incidents over time using the Caltrans District 12 TMC Performance evaluation system deployed at the California Traffic Management Laboratories (CTMLabs) at the University of California, Irvine (UCI).

Related Publications

research report | May 2018

Situational awareness for transportation management: Automated video incident detection and other machine learning technologies for the traffic management center

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Enhanced Truck Counts for California

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

July 24, 2015 - March 31, 2017

Principal Investigator

Stephen Ritchie

Project Team

Kyungsoo Jeong, Kyung (Kate) Hyun, Andre (Yeow Chern) Tok, Yue (Ethan) Sun, Yiqiao Li, Zhe (Jared) Sun, Craig Rindt

Sponsor & Award Number

Caltrans: 74A0851

Areas of Expertise

Freight, Logistics, & Supply Chain Intelligent Transportation Systems, Emerging Technologies, & Big Data

Team Departmental Affiliation

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Olympics Transportation System Management Performance Analysis

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

January 1, 1900 - March 30, 1985

Principal Investigator

Genevieve (Gen) Giuliano

Sponsor & Award Number

Caltrans: RTA 13945-55B579

Areas of Expertise

Infrastructure Delivery, Operations, & Resilience

Related Publications

working paper | Dec 1987

Evaluation of 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics Traffic Management

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Engineering Strategies for Major Reconstruction of Urban Highway

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

January 3, 1984 - June 30, 1985

Principal Investigator

Will Recker

Areas of Expertise

Infrastructure Delivery, Operations, & Resilience

Team Departmental Affiliation

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Study of Olympics Traffic Management

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

July 31, 1984 - December 15, 1985

Principal Investigator

Will Recker

Areas of Expertise

Infrastructure Delivery, Operations, & Resilience

Team Departmental Affiliation

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Evaluation of Closed-Circuit Television for Freeway Surveillance

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

March 1, 1985 - February 28, 1986

Principal Investigator

Will Recker

Areas of Expertise

Intelligent Transportation Systems, Emerging Technologies, & Big Data

Team Departmental Affiliation

Civil and Environmental Engineering

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