Mining vehicle classifications from the Columbus Metropolitan Freeway Management System.
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Mining vehicle classifications from the Columbus Metropolitan Freeway Management System.

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  • Creators:
  • Corporate Creators:
    Ohio State University
  • Corporate Contributors:
    United States. Federal Highway Administration
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  • Publication/ Report Number:
    FHWA/OH-2015/1
  • Resource Type:
    Tech Report
  • Geographical Coverage:
    Ohio
  • Corporate Publisher:
    Ohio. Dept. of Transportation. Office of Statewide Planning and Research
  • 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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    State Job Number 134696
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