Defining the Digital Highway

The "Digital Highway" is a static, dynamic, and real-time description of the physical and operational characteristics of our nation's highways that positively impacts the performance, efficiency, safety, security and comfort of drivers. The digital highway is the backbone that supports the concept of the intelligent highway transportation system of the future. The information contained in the digital highway database will be used to support future research in a wide range of transportation areas. This project focuses developing all of the parameters needed to define the "Digital Highway" on 10 miles of highway in Nevada. The proposed research is focused on defining10 miles of Nevada highway as a digital highway. The static and dynamic parameters that describe the section of highway will be measured and defined. The test vehicle will be used to monitor and record the real-time parameters that are required to define the selected section of highway. A web based system will be developed to store and display the information recorded on the digital highway.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Final report can be found at http://nutc.unlv.edu/ProjectsInfo/Digital/Digital.pdf

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $115115.00
• Contract Numbers:

  DTRT06-G-0034

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Research and Innovative Technology Administration

  University Transportation Centers Program
  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada

  600 S Grand Central Pkwy
  Suite 350
  Las Vegas, NV  United States  89106
• Performing Organizations:

  Transportation Research Center

  University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  4505 Maryland Parkway, MS 4007
  Las Vegas, NV  United States  89154
• Principal Investigators:

  Shankar, Swetha

  Karamcheti, Aditya

  Miryala, Anup

  Ramasamy, Subramanian

  Abella, Robert

• Start Date: 20070901
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20081231
• Source Data: RiP Project 18612

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automated highways; Real time data processing; Real time information; Research projects
• Identifier Terms: Digital Highway Data Vehicle
• Uncontrolled Terms: Real time measurement
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01468416
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Center
• Contract Numbers: DTRT06-G-0034
• Files: UTC, RIP, USDOT
• Created Date: Jan 3 2013 3:50PM