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Objectives
• Grant Proposal Definition
• Prototype Demonstration
Document
• Project Homepage
Description
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Project Prototype Description
• A computer based simulation
model
• To mimic the behavior of HOV
lanes
• Produce an accurate
representation of the current traffic
flow.
• Show the effect of rubber necking
or speed trap
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Project Prototype Description 2
(For each segment)
• Provides information of
– Average travel time
– Number of vehicles in a given
time period
– Color-coded for the degree of
capacity
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What Project Elements Will Not
Be Included?
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Additional lanes
Interchanges
New interstates roads
Long term construction or lane
closures
Expectations
The better estimation on:
– Amount of time to completion
– Man power
– Budget
– Percentage of accuracy of the
system
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Reduced Risks
• Can develop a computer based model
to mimic the behavior of an Interstate
System
• Can provide results that describe the
current system's operations
statistically and graphically
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Reduced Risk 2
• Can provide results that describe a
modified system's operations
statistically and graphically
• Can simulate a small segment of the
Hampton Roads Interstate System
for Project Validation (Prototype)
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Project Homepage Description
• One page that links to most common
pages (i.e. Homepage, Webmaster, Email,
Schedule, Members, Project Status…)
• URL: http://www.cs.odu.edu/~cpi/cpi98-99/cpi9899/traffic/public_html
• Homepage contents
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Homepage Contents
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Mission Statement
Project Overview
Welcome Visitors
Members
Schedule
Status
Archive
Search Page, Site
Index, Links
• Project
Presentations
• Prototype Info &
Screen Shots
• Grant Agencies Info
• Discussions
• What’s New
• Contact Info
• Webmaster
Page Description
• Members: contact information for all the
members of GAS Project
• Schedule: a list of scheduled project
events, and key milestones and
deliverables
• Status: links to our project's monthly,
quarterly, and annual status reports
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Page Description 2
• Archive: links to
– Documents authored by project
members
– Software programs and components
developed by the project
– Tools we've found useful and collected
here for your convenience
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Grant Proposal Definition
• Identify two distinct Grant agencies
• NSF- Research to define standard
and interchangeable components of
a traffic simulation
• DOT- Operational uses of a traffic
simulator
• Both one-year grants
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Scope Of The Proposed Research
• NFS - Pure research
• DOT - Operational / Application
based
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Method of Solution
• NSF
– Use University facilities, equipment,
student workforce
• DOT
– Use NSF Grant research to design
simulation model
– Use University facilities, equipment,
student workforce
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Evaluation
• NSF
– Interchangeable components for
different model areas
• DOT
– Validation of model output against
actual baseline and modified traffic
output
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Schedule for Research Effort
• NSF
– July 1999 to Sept. 2000
• DOT
– Oct. 2000 to Dec. 2001
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Budget
• NSF
– 600,000
• DOT
– 500,000
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