NTL Record

Title Transit safety retrofit package development : final report.
Record ID 54592
Personal Name
Creator
Zimmer, R. E.; Burt, M.; Zink, G. J.; Valentine, D. A.; Knox, W. J. Jr.
Corporate Creator Battelle Memorial Institute
Corporate
Contributor
United States. Federal Highway Administration; United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Transit Administration
Publisher United States. Department of Transportation. Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office
Publication Date 20140700
Language English
Abstract This report provides a summary of the Transit Safety Retrofit Package (TRP) Development project and its results. The report documents results of each project phase, and provides recommended next steps as well as a vision for a next generation TRP. The objectives of this project included developing, testing, installing, deploying, and maintaining TRPs on three University of Michigan transit buses, including installation of three Basic Safety Applications – Emergency Electronic Brake Lights (EEBL), Forward Collision Warning (FCW), and Curve Speed Warning (CSW), and development of two new Transit-Specific Safety Applications – Pedestrian in Signalized Crosswalk Warning (PCW) and Vehicle Turning Right in Front of Bus Warning (VTRW); participating in the USDOT’s Safety Pilot Model Deployment; and collecting and providing data from the TRP-equipped buses to the Volpe Center for an independent evaluation of results. Within the Model Deployment Connected Vehicle (CV) architecture, TRP employed Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) technologies based on Dedicated Short-Range Communication (DSRC), to ultimately determine if these technologies could be combined with the on-board transit safety applications to provide real-time alerting to the transit driver.
Rosap ID dot:3511
Rosap URL https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/3511
TRT Terms Campus transportation; Bus transit operations; Retrofitting; Intelligent transportation systems; Transit safety; ITS program applications; Vehicle to vehicle communications; Vehicle to infrastructure communications
Geographical
Coverage
United States
TRIS Online
Accession No
1560096
Contract Number DTFH61-12-C-00007
Report Number FHWA-JPO-14-142
Availability Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office
Resource type Tech Report
URL https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/54000/54500/54592/FHWA-JPO-14-142_v1.pdf
Format PDF
Database NTL Digital Repository