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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)

Simulation Analysis Estimates Fuel Savings of Up to 12.3 Percent Using Long-Horizon Predictive Cruise Control in Truck Platooning.

Methodology For a single truck configuration, researchers used a simulation model consisting of one vehicle model, a speed tracker, a speed profile, and road-grade data for the selected route. In a…
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Date Posted
10/29/2021

Regional Truck Parking Information and Management Systems have a benefit-to-cost ratio of 4.27.

A benefit-to-cost estimated for the MAASTO TPIMS estimated as part of the 2015 TIGER Grant application using the TIGER BCA Resource Guide was based on project performance data collected from the…
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Date Posted
01/30/2019

Use Mobile Road Weather Information Sensors and Maintenance Decision Support Systems to Reduce Material Usage and Increase Cost Savings for Winter Road Maintenance Operations.

Use mobile RWIS and MDSS to reduce material usage and increase cost savings. CDOT reported that districts that used mobile RWIS reported an approximate 20 percent reduction in material usage,…
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Date Posted
05/31/2022

Look to Braking and Wheel Counter Information from Vehicle Controller Area Network (CAN) Data for Early Indication of Winter Conditions.

Use hard braking and wheel counter data as an early indicator of winter conditions. The study successfully piloted an integrated CAN bus system to monitor road conditions in real-time, and these…
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Date Posted
04/26/2022

Indiana initiated a $34 million ITS project to offer advanced incident messaging, traffic flow monitoring, and detection of wrong-way motorists at toll roads.

Indiana Toll Road Concession Company LLC (ITRCC) is extending the fiber optic backbone and intelligent transportation system (ITS) along the I-80/I-90 Indiana Toll Road. More than 85 miles of conduit…
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08/28/2019