This document reports on the formal evaluation of the targeted (limited but highly focused) deployment of the Advanced Driver and Vehicle Advisory Navigation ConcEpt (ADVANCE), an in-vehicle advanced traveler information system designed to provide shortest time route guidance. Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) served as the Evaluation Manager. Organizations that assisted in the evaluations of the various subsystems under test plans developed by Booz-Allen & Hamilton, a support contractor to the Federal Highway Administration’s Intelligent Transportation System Field Operations Test program, were the University of Illinois at Chicago Urban Transportation Center (UIC-UTC), Northwestern University Transportation Center (NUTC), and DeLeuw, Cather & Company. This report contains the results of the targeted evaluation in three volumes. Volume 1 presents the Evaluation Manager’s Overview Report prepared by ANL. The overview presents the scope of the evaluation, the data collection protocols, a synopsis of the findings, and a discussion of the validity of the targeted deployment’s results. Volume 1 also contains Appendixes A through H. Volume 2 contains Appendixes I, J, and K. Volume 3 contains Appendixes L and M. The appendixes contain the evaluation test results. The reports of each evaluating organization have been presented in the version received from their respective authors, following completion of the technical and policy reviews conducted according to procedures set by the project’s Steering Committee. Appendixes A-G were prepared by UIC-UTC; Appendixes H-J were prepared by NUTC; and Appendixes K and L were prepared by DeLeuw, Cather. Appendix M is a glossary of terms used in these reports, as compiled by ANL. (Author/publisher)
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