Visual warning system for worker safety on roadside work-zones.

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• Creators:
  Hayee, M. Imran ; Banaeiyan, Nazanin A. ; Zaman, Attiq uz
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Minnesota, Duluth
• Corporate Contributors:
  Minnesota. Dept. of Transportation. Research Services & Library
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Work zone safety
  • Work zone traffic control
  • Variable message signs
  • Warning systems
  • Dedicated short range communications
  • Mobile communication systems
  • work-zone safety
  • dedicated short range communications
  • construction equipment
  • occupational safety
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• Publication/ Report Number:
  MN/RC 2016-27
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Minnesota ; United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  Minnesota. Dept. of Transportation. Research Services & Library
• Abstract:
  Growing traffic on US roadways and heavy construction machinery on road construction sites pose a critical safety ; threat to construction workers. This report summarizes the design and development of a worker safety system using ; Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) to specifically address the workers’ safety for the workers ; working around the heavy machinery. The proposed system has dual objectives. First objective is to improve ; workers’ safety by providing visual guidance to the operators of the construction vehicles about the workers’ ; presence in the vicinity. This visual guidance keeps the operators of the heavy machinery well informed about the ; whereabouts of the workers in close proximity while operating the heavy vehicle. The second objective of the ; proposed system is to improve the work-zone traffic mobility by dynamically posting suitable speed limits and ; other warning messages on the DSRC-equipped variable message signs (VMSs) depending on the workers’ ; presence in an active work-zone to appropriately warn the drivers of the passing-by vehicles. ; A prototype was developed and field tests were conducted to demonstrate and evaluate the performance of the ; proposed system. The evaluation test results show that the system can successfully show the presence of workers ; around a construction vehicle on an Android tablet with acceptable distance (1.5 – 2 m) and direction (15 – 20 ; degrees) accuracies. Furthermore, the test results show that a DSRC-equipped VMS can successfully post a suitable ; speed limit corresponding to the presence of workers in its vicinity.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  (c) 99008 (wo) 150 ; CTS #2015004
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/32177/dot_32177_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.50 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:c1edef790572ec0e7c10fceb9cbc40c8a627626d3181a04d530c3a62e5127e18