Intelligent Freight Technologies Tools

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Intelligent Freight Technologies Tools
Center for Advanced Transportation Systems
Simulation

• Presented By
• Mike Akridge, FDOT
• Amr Oloufa, CATSS/UCF
• Jack Selter, CATSS/UCF

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Intermodal Freight in Florida

• Florida is a import/export nexus for the U.S.
• In 2006
• -Florida exported commodities from its ports
  with a value of 40 Billion .
• -Florida imported commodities into its ports
  with a value of 37 Billion.
• -Commercial vehicles moved 87.5 of all
  commodities to and from Florida ports.

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Florida DOT Freight Program

• Florida Strategic Intermodal System Plan
• -Linking hubs, corridors and connectors
• -Safe, Secure, Efficient, Reliable
• -Ties State funding to Projects
• Compliance without Interruption
• Exploring Technology ( ITS) to meet the challenge

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Potential for an Integrated Roadside System
Lets look at Florida as an example of this
concept.
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Potential for an Integrated Roadside System
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The state currently operates 26 electronic
screening sites. If deployed, the Smart
Roadside concept, could expand this network of 26
sites to include.
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Potential for an Integrated Roadside System
(continued)
40 additional WIM sites
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Potential for an Integrated Roadside System
(continued)
14 seaports
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Potential for an Integrated Roadside System
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20 airports.and numerous other roadside
facilities (i.e., electronic toll collection
booths). What currently is a network of 26
connected sites could become a network of 100
integrated stations
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Target Technologies
Laser Infrared Imaging Internet Wireless
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Florida DOT Virtual Weigh Site (Punta Gorda, FL)
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Punta Gorda Virtual Weigh Site
The Problem
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Punta Gorda Virtual Weigh Station
LPR Camera, WIM, Side View Camera
LPR Camera
NS Weigh Station
LPR Camera, WIM, Side View Camera
LPR Camera
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Punta Gorda Virtual Weigh Site
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Punta Gorda Virtual Weigh Site
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POJAX-FDOT-University Partnership

• The opportunity to initiate the
• development, deployment and
• and assessment of a fully
• integrated commercial
• vehicle compliance,
• freight mobility, and safe/security
• system.

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Stakeholders

• FDOT-ITS
• FDOT-District 2
• FDOT-MCCO
• POJAX
• FHWA
• FDLE
• UCF/CATSS
• FAU/UCITSS

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POJAX-UCF CV Compliance Project

• Technology Deployment
• -Non intrusive Weight Measurement
• -Commercial Vehicle Verification (OCR)
• -vehicle identification
• -vehicle dimensioning
• -Data Acquisition, Warehousing and Sharing
• -Pre System Compliance
• -Test bed for other technologies

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Commercial Vehicle Scanning
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Project Model Weight and Message
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Project Model Weight and Message
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Project Model OCR

• Due to the low travel
• speeds of this
• application, the research
• team believes it will be
• possible to utilize
• automated readout of
• DOT numbers 24/7

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Project Model Data Transmission and Warehouse
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Project Impact

• A Remotely Operated Compliance Station provides
  cost savings and efficiency.
• Real time enforcement of out-of-compliance
  trucks.
• Revenue Compliance with Vehicle Type.
• Integration with Cargo Theft Recovery System.
• Demonstrate ITS for Homeland Security.
• Wireless Data Transmission to Enforcement and
  Freight Management Data Warehouse
• BOTTOM LINE
• Collecting and transmitting valuable data without
  
• stopping commerce!

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Future Activities and Plan

• Continued Applied Research
• Engage more freight stakeholders in test
  deployments
• Work toward a more intermodal approach
• Policy and Resources
• Intermodal WEB Portal Technologies, Warehousing,
  Forums, Government Objectives

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Future Technology Deployments

• Multiple Lane Application (example all lanes on
  I-95).
• Multiple stations feed/access data to one control
  center (expanded data warehousing)
• Use data for enforcement (paradigm shift).
• Driver and Truck Performance Data.

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DISCUSSIONS