Automated Data Collection for Origin/Destination Studies of Freight Movement

Project Description:

The collection of reliable Origin/Destination data for freight has profound consequences for a large range of applications in both planning and operations. Indeed, in both research and practice, a large number of applications rely heavily on such data.
This project has four major objectives:

Assess gantry-mounted cameras and OCR technology for collecting large sets of O/D Data.
Develop a database-based system for O/D data archival and analysis.
Design and deploy a hardware system for rapid installation in a large number of installation scenarios on highway gantries.
Design and deploy a solar-based system for power.

Final Report

Presentations:

"Automated Capture of Freight Origin/Destination Data using License Plate Readers", presented at the 2013 UTC Conference for the Southeastern Region in Orlando, Florida, April 3-5, 2013.

Project Information Forms:

Describe Implementation of Research Outcomes (or why not implemented) :

Alternative foundation design approved by FDOT
New contractor quotations
Database programming
Simulation dataset developed
Routing algorith tested.

Research has developed a plan to expedite the project and plans to install solar and camera systems this quarter.

This is a practically oriented project which relies data collected from cameras mounted on several highway gantries, lighting systems for license plate reading, solar power, and software for data analysis.

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