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Title	The Crescent Project: An Evaluation Of An Element Of The HELP Program. Executive Summary
Record ID	12393
Corporate Creator	Crescent Evaluation Team
Corporate Contributor	WHM Transportation Engineering Consultants, Inc.; Castle Rock Consultants; Western Highway Institute / ATA Foundation
Publisher	Joint Program Office for Intelligent Transportation Systems
Publication Date	19940200
Abstract	The Crescent Project element of the HELP Program is a bi-national multi-jurisdictional cooperative research and demonstration initiative involving the public and private sectors in an application of advanced technologies for the creation of an integrated heavy vehicle management system. This initiative is a leading example of the commercial vehicle operations (CVO) aspect of the Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems (IVHS) concept. Some of the advanced technologies demonstrated in this project include: (1) automatic vehicle identification (AVI); (2) weigh-in-motion (WIM); (3) automatic vehicle classification (AVC); and (4) data communications networks and systems integration. The demonstration element of the program, referred to as the Crescent Demonstration Project, began in 1991 and involved six U.S. states and one Canadian province. This project was phased into full scale operation over a three year period. This document is one of several cited below which comprise the evaluation of the Crescent Project. The complete evaluation is reported in the following list of documents: The Crescent Project: An Evaluation of an Element of the HELP Program: Executive Summary Appendices: A. On-Site Analysis of HELP Technologies and Operations Evaluation Report, B. State Case Study Evaluation Report, C. Motor Carrier Case Study Evaluation Report, D. Crescent Computer System Components Evaluation Report, E. Crescent Demonstration Office Evaluation Report, and F. State Line Beacon Project User Case Studies. All appendices are on-line and can accessed through the National Transportation Library. Crescent home page is at http://www.benefitcost.its.dot.gov/its/benecost.nsf/ID/36CFF2BCED3A6CCA852569610051E2AD?OpenDocument&Flag=Country.
TRT Terms	Intelligent transportation systems programs ; Motor carriers ; Trucking ; Commercial vehicle operations ; Automatic vehicle classification ; Automatic vehicle identification ; Weigh in motion ; Data communications ; Evaluation
General Subjects	Crescent Project; Heavy Vehicle Electronic License Plate (HELP) program; Integrated heavy vehicle management systems
Classification	NTL - FREIGHT - Trucking Industry; NTL - INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS - INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS; NTL - PLANNING AND POLICY - Technology Transfer; NTL - PLANNING AND POLICY - Management Systems
Geographical Coverage	United States
TRIS Online Accession No	00796340
Resource type	Research Paper
URL	http://ntl.bts.gov/lib/12000/12300/12393/7DQ01.pdf
Format	PDF
Language:	English
Database	NTL Digital Repository