Statewide Transportation Engineering Warehouse for Archived Regional Data (STEWARD) : phase III, final report December 15, 2009

Final report; 2008-2009.PDFTech ReportFR-72734BD 545, RPWO #93Intelligent transportation systemsTraffic surveillanceDatabasesFloridaFlorida. Dept. of TransportationCourage, Kenneth G.Lee, SeokjooUniversity of Florida. Transportation Research CenterFlorida. Dept. of TransportationUniversity Transportation Centers Program (U.S.)NTL-INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS-INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMSUS Transportation CollectionThis report documents Phase III of the development and operation of a prototype for the Statewide TransportationEngineering Warehouse for Archived Regional Data (STEWARD). It reflects the progress on the development andoperation of STEWARD since the completion of Phase II in April 2008. The previous effort focused on FDOT District 2 todemonstrate that data from a traffic management center can be centrally archived in a practical manner and that a variety ofuseful reports and other products can be produced. The current effort included the addition of data from four more FDOTdistricts (4, 5, 6 and 7) to the STEWARD database. A fully functional Web site was implemented to support users inretrieving data and creating reports. Support was provided to a variety of users for research and operational studies.Analyses were conducted using the data to demonstrate the extraction of traffic counts from detectors, evaluation ofmanaged lanes, travel time reliability reporting, evaluation of the effect of an incident on freeway performance and acomparison of the detector data characteristics with the principles of traffic flow theory. As a result of this project it wasrecommended that the STEWARD operation be continued and expanded.The work was performed under two parallel projects, one of which was supported by the FDOT and the other by theUniversity of Florida. While the objectives of these two projects were stated separately, some of the activities overlappedthe project boundaries in a manner that was mutually beneficial to both projects. Therefore, the projects have beencombined for reporting purposes to facilitate review and assimilation of the \ue2\u20ac\u153big picture\ue2\u20ac? by stakeholders. This documentserves as the final report for both projects