U.S. Department of Transportation
Federal Highway Administration
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Washington, DC 20590
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Federal Highway Administration Research and Technology
Coordinating, Developing, and Delivering Highway Transportation Innovations
| Project Information | ||
| Project ID: | FHWA-PROJ-13-0107 | |
| Project Name: | Remote, Wireless Camera Systems for Environmental Monitoring of Transportation Corridors | |
| Project Status: | Active | |
| Start Date: | September 30, 2013 | |
| End Date: | September 29, 2016 | |
| Contact Information | ||
| Last Name: | Tchaou | |
| First Name: | Marcel | |
| Telephone: | 202-366-4196 | |
| E-mail: | marcel.tchaou@dot.gov | |
| Office: | HEPE | |
| Team: | Project Mitigation [HEPE-30] | |
| Program: | Exploratory Advanced Research | |
| Project detail | ||
| Project Description: | Wildlife movement across, under, and adjacent to highway rights-of-way and crossing structures is of critical concern for environmental protection, regulatory, and public safety reasons. Using low-powered/self-powered camera networks communicating via wireless, wired, or cell technologies with Web-informatics could provide information for short-term project and mitigation needs and long-term monitoring needs. The goal of this research is to develop the technology to support the evolution of wildlife monitoring associated with transportation corridors from manually maintained cameras to wired and wireless camera systems employing a variety of communication technologies. Further, these systems are fully integrated and usable with Web-informatics systems, making data collection and sharing more consistent and easier. This new approach is both feasible and attractive to transportation planning and environmental assessment because it makes the cost and benefits of these systems more predictable and the outputs more continuous. The proposed system also resembles current traffic flow monitoring systems, which are increasingly familiar to transportation staff and the public. Finally, the system will reduce risk to staff accessing wildlife cameras from the right-of-way because camera system maintenance will be occasional. | |
| Goals: |
(1) To develop low-powered sensor systems that accelerate project delivery and environmental assessment, and that support decisions.
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To increase the prevalence of unstaffed sensor technologies.
(3) To reduce hazards and costs associated
with field monitoring.
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| Product Type: | Research report Training materials | |
| Test Methodology: | Field testing | |
| Expected Benefits: | The development of a model system that any department of transportation can use in areas with wired, wireless, or cell system connectivity, including using existing traffic cam infrastructure to add wildlife monitoring to the data stream. | |
| Deliverables: | Name: Training materials. Product Type(s): Research report, Training materials Description: Training materials, webinars, and one training workshop.Final system release and documentation, including project report describing lessons learned, available components for system development, costs of building, setup, and maintenance of systems, and links to Web informatics download and setup. | |
| FHWA Topics: | Research/Technologies--Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC) | |
| TRT Terms: | Wildlife Environmental protection Wildlife crossings Cameras Safety Research |
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| FHWA Disciplines: | Environment |
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| Subject Areas: | Data and Information Technology Environment Research |
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