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
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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