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A Study in South Carolina Found That Advantages of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Deployment for Bridge Inspection Include Reduced Need for Under Bridge Inspection Trucks, Convenient Documentation, and Increased Safety for Inspection Engineers.

METHODOLOGY To evaluate the effectiveness of using a UAS to support a bridge inspection team, two primary experiments were conducted on the same test bridge. The first experiment intended to evaluate…
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Date Posted
03/31/2023

Study Finds that Using In-House Equipment and Software for Automatic Vehicle Detection and Classification Could Have a Video Processing Cost of Approximately $500 per 48-Hour Count.

The collection of traffic volume data is vital to transportation agencies for various purposes. A range of techniques exist for counting traffic volumes including radar detectors, inductive loops,…
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02/22/2023

Enable Local Data Storage on Smart Work Zone Mobile Applications to Avoid Over-Reliance on Internet Access For Work Zone Sites In Dead Zones.

Consider limitations of the app such as over-reliance on internet access. When construction work zones take place in rural areas where internet access is limited, the app should still work offline.…
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12/17/2021

Using sensors and traffic cameras for incident identification and verification yielded benefit-to-cost ratios of 6.54:1 and 12.47:1, respectively.

South Carolina uses sensors (loop and radar) and traffic cameras to detect and verify the location of incidents. The benefit-cost analysis in the report considered the use of these technologies in…
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Date Posted
02/09/2016