| Title | Building the Vision, a Series of AZTech ITS Model Deployment Success Stories for the Phoenix Metropolitan Area: Number Three: Well Connected, Linking U.S. Highway 60 With the Trailmaster System |
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| Record ID | 24413 |
| Source | 3p. |
| Corporate Creator | AZTech (Organization) |
| Publisher | United States. Joint Program Office for Intelligent Transportation Systems |
| Publication Date | 19980000 |
| Language | English |
| Abstract | The Arizona Department of Transportation's (ADOT) Trailmaster Freeway Management System is integral to AZTech. Trailmaster provides state-of-the-art traffic management through a variety of electronic means, such as collecting and distributing traffic information via cameras and detectors. Trailmaster has currently been implemented on some 50 miles of freeway in the Valley of the Sun. Trailmaster has not yet arrived, however, at a highly traveled eight-mile section of U.S. Highway 60 between Interstate 10 and Gilbert Road in the East Valley. In fact, the expansion of Trailmaster is not expected to reach this stretch of highway for two to three years. In the meantime, the need for traffic management is urgent. To install traditional traffic detection devices, which would relay information to the ADOT Traffic Operations Center (TOC) via telephone lines, would present a major cost. Identifying a cost-effective alternative became an AZTech priority. |
| Rosap ID | dot:2136 |
| Rosap URL | https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/2136 |
| TRT Terms | Freeway management systems; Intelligent transportation systems; Vehicle detectors; Highway traffic control; Cameras; Traffic control centers |
| General Subjects | ITS; Phoenix (Arizona); Trailmaster Freeway Management System |
| Classification | NTL - OPERATIONS AND TRAFFIC CONTROLS - OPERATIONS AND TRAFFIC CONTROLS; NTL - OPERATIONS AND TRAFFIC CONTROLS - Traffic Control Devices; NTL - INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS - INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS |
| Geographical Coverage |
Phoenix (Arizona) |
| Resource type | Brief |
| URL | https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/jpodocs/rept_mis/5767.pdf |
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| Database | NTL Digital Repository |