Quick Highway Incident Detection and Warning System - Phase I

The objective of this research project is to develop a quick highway incident detection system using low-cost sensors and wireless communication. The system can detect an incident quickly and warn upstream traffic to avoid secondary collisions automatically.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Sponsor Organizations:

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  McHale, Gene

• Start Date: 20080101
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20081031
• Source Data: RiP Project 20568

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Incident detection; Research projects; Secondary crashes; Sensors; Traffic crashes; Traffic flow; Warning systems; Wireless communication systems
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01462296
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Federal Highway Administration
• Files: RIP, USDOT
• Created Date: Jan 3 2013 2:01PM