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Advanced Queue Detection Systems Installed at Four Work Zones in Nebraska Were Estimated To Cost $166,225 per Work Zone for a 6-Month Project on I-80.

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The system cost analysis was based on a typical AQD system including one CCTV camera, three non-intrusive detection, and two pairs (total of four) of PDMS. Based on an estimation of six-month…
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Made Public Date
12/22/2023

Australian Study on Cooperative ITS Technologies Showed a Four to Nine Percentage Point Increase in Technology Usefulness Rating, Based on User Questionnaires Comparing Control and Treatment Groups.

METHODOLOGY The participants were randomly assigned into either of two groups: Treatment Group that had an HMI receiving warnings, and Control Group that had an inactive HMI. Over nine months, both…
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Date Posted
12/18/2023

Advanced Queue Detection System Using Portable Dynamic Message Signs Reduced Speeds of Vehicles Approaching Interstate Work Zones in Nebraska by up to Seven Miles Per Hour.

METHODOLOGY In this study, portable traffic data capturing units, consisting of cameras and Wi-Fi receivers as detectors, were utilized through a private company. Cameras within the portable units…
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Date Posted
06/30/2023

Indiana DOT's 26 Month Pilot Study Shows That Deployment of Queue Warning Trucks Ahead of Interstate Work Zones to Alert Motorists of Queued Traffic Reduced Hard Braking Events by 80 Percent.

METHODOLOGY A comparative analysis was conducted to evaluate the deployment of queue trucks in interstates of Indiana, by comparing the telematic data collected from queue warning trucks with the…
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Date Posted
04/30/2023
Taxonomy (ARC-IT) Queue Warning (VS08)

Minneapolis Active Traffic Management System Using Intelligent Lane Control Signals Resulted in a 22 Percent Decrease in Crashes and 54 Percent Decrease in Near Crashes.

METHODOLOGY The first system was tested in the field for three weeks in 2016, showing the queue warning message “SLOW TRAFFIC AHEAD” to travelers when a queue was estimated at downstream locations.…
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Date Posted
07/27/2021
Taxonomy (ARC-IT) Queue Warning (VS08)

Before Developing a Queue Warning System (QWS) for Use on Conventional Highways, Identify Plans for Verifying Crashworthiness of QWS Support Structures, Signage, and Traffic Detection and Communications Hardware.

Before developing a low-cost QWS, an investment in funding for crash testing is strongly recommended to verify that signage support structures with QWS traffic sensors and communications hardware…
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Date Posted
12/18/2020
Taxonomy (ARC-IT) Queue Warning (VS08)