Title: TRANSGUIDE, THE SAN ANTONIO ADVANCED TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Abstract: San Antonio, Texas, is rapidly approaching ongoing congestion in its freeway network, and experiences significant delays due to construction and traffic incidents. The TransGuide Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS) in San Antonio represents a new generation of ATMSs, where advanced technologies and modern standards are applied to the problem of traffic congestion. Incorporating innovations in communication technology, computing, and information display, the system is expected to reduce the time to detect an incident from nearly 20 minutes to under two minutes. The system represents a fully intermodal transportation management environment, with personnel from the state transportation department, law enforcement, local agencies, and the transit authority working together in the Control Center to optimize traffic flow and travel condition. Other partners have included academia and nonprofit research institutions. Project innovations extend into the procurement process used to contract for and install the system, and the traffic engineering concepts which the system supports. The system is operational and is undergoing final integration and testing, with turnover to the TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (DOT) for operation expected before the end of 1994. Initial Texas DOT calculations project a payback of approximately 30:1 on the public's investment. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, see IRRD abstract 868345.
Publication Year: 1995
Publication Date: 1995-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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