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Southeast Michigan Snow and Ice Management (SEMSIM) : final evaluation at end of winter season, year 2004
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2004-08-01
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Abstract:In the early spring of 1999, the Detroit Department of Public Works, the Road Commission of Macomb County, the Road Commission for Oakland County, and the Wayne County Department of Public Services formed the Southeast Michigan Snow and Ice Management partnership, naming themselves the SEMSIM Partners. The purpose of the partnership was to develop an Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) system that would allow the Partners to track their vehicles and fight a snowstorm in a cooperative effort. There have been three phases of the program. The first phase consisted of 40 vehicles (10 each partner) based on a standard application designed by Orbital Sciences Transportation Management Systems (TMS) out of Columbia, Maryland. The second phase was developed by Orbital Sciences from a suggested improvement by the SEMSIM Partners to create an Internet web-based system. This Phase II system consisted of a mini-fleet of 40 vehicles that could be viewed from any PC that was able to access the Internet. After a trial period, the remaining fleet was expanded to the present 292-vehicle Phase III system. This report provides an evaluation of the fifth season, the winter of 2003-2004. The evaluation centered on determining if the system (1) provided the tracking and reporting tools that the SEMSIM Partners wanted and (2) had the potential to provide improved efficiency and impacted standard ITS measures in a positive way.
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