Mining vehicle classifications from the Columbus Metropolitan Freeway Management System.
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2015-01-01
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Abstract:Vehicle classification data are used in many transportation applications, including: pavement design,
environmental impact studies, traffic control, and traffic safety. Ohio has over 200 permanent count stations,
supplemented by many more short-term count locations. Due to the high costs involved, the density of
monitoring stations is still very low given the lane miles that are covered. This study leveraged the deployed
detectors in the Columbus Metropolitan Freeway Management System (CMFMS) to collect and analyze
classification data from critical freeways where the Traffic Monitoring Section has not been able to collect much
classification data in the past due to site limitations. The CMFMS was deployed in an unconventional manner
because it included an extensive fiber optic network, frontloading most of the communications costs, and rather
than aggregating the data in the field, the detector stations sent all of the individual per-vehicle actuations (i.e.,
PVR data) to the traffic management center (TMC). The PVR data include the turn-on and turn-off time for
every actuation at each detector at the given station. Our group has collected and archived all of the PVR data
from the CMFMS for roughly a decade. The PVR data allows us to reprocess the original actuations
retroactively. As described in this report, the research undertook extensive diagnostics and cleaning to extract
the vehicle classification data from detectors originally deployed for traffic operations.
The work yielded length based vehicle classification data from roughly 40 bi-directional miles of urban
freeways in Columbus, Ohio over a continuous monitoring period of up to 10 years. The facilities span I-70, I-
71, I-270, I-670, and SR-315, including the heavily congested inner-belt. Prior to this study, these facilities
previously had either gone completely unmonitored or were only subject to infrequent, short-term counts.
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