Developing a real-time incident decision support system (IDSS) for the freight industry.

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• Creators:
  Liao, Chen-Fu ; Donath, Max
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Minnesota
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Real time information
  • Decision support systems
  • Freight transportation
  • Global Positioning System
  • Automatic incident detection
  • Commercial vehicles
  • Probe vehicles
  • Highway corridors
• Publication/ Report Number:
  RITARS-12-H-UMN
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Dept. of Transportation. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
• Abstract:
  Our nation's economy is highly dependent on reliable and cost-effective truck-freight ; transportation. Delays to truck movement are of particular concern to the nation. Building upon ; our previous effort, we developed an Incident Decision Support System (IDSS) that uses GPS-equipped commercial trucks as probe vehicles on key freight corridors such as inter-regional ; corridors (IRC) and supplemental freight routes in Minnesota. An automatic incident detection ; algorithm was developed: (a) to be used by truck drivers and dispatchers who need to make ; necessary routing and operations decisions when incidents occur, (b) to support incident decision ; making by state DOTs and (c) for traveler information purposes. ; The objective of this project was to develop an Incident Decision Support System (IDSS), that ; uses GPS-equipped commercial trucks as probe vehicles on freight corridors, to detect incidents ; and provide incident information in real-time to truck operators on rural corridors where ; infrastructure-based sensing is unavailable.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/28740/dot_28740_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.50 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:141db70b4d193a27f72c7df68a7bec17404609ac2ab5112e4a70ffe7a1a53dcb