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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
Record ID	24413
Corporate Creator	AZTech
Publisher	Joint Program Office for Intelligent Transportation Systems
Publication Date	19980000
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. 3 p.
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	Article
URL	http://www.itsdocs.fhwa.dot.gov//JPODOCS/REPT_MIS//5767.pdf
Format	PDF
Language:	English
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