As the ITS program matures, there is much discussion on developing the next generation traffic management center (TMC). This paper presents a new tool called TRAMLAB for the rapid development, evaluation, demonstration, and refinement of innovative traffic management and control system prototypes. TRAMLAB allows development of prototypes suitable for the next generation TMC operations and enables accelerated testing of new technologies, as part of Minnesota's ITS laboratory infrastructure. Under TRAMLAB all of the major traffic management center functions are integrated. These functions cover the fields of incident management, surveillance, traveler information, traffic operations, and control. The objective of TRAMLAB is to establish a laboratory environment that allows easy experimentation, prototype development, and concept demonstration of new Traffic Management Systems prototypes. (A*)
Samenvatting