Sponsor: Flagstaff Metropolitan Planning Organization
PI: Edward J. Smaglik
Project Start|End Date: 2011 | 2012
This project involved an investigation into the development of real-time travel time data within and around the City of Flagstaff during the snowplay season. Snowplay traffic on specific routes causes extreme delays on a number of peak days, and the researchers investigated the feasibility of developing probe data from Bluetooth sensors with the intent of providing this data to the traveling public to assist in their route choice decision structure. Sixteen sensors were deployed around the city to generate travel time data, however, the low volumes on many of the selected routes precluded making reasonable predictions about travel times. As part of this project, the research team evaluated the usefulness and feasibility of the hardware and accompanying software for future implementations.