Research Pays Off: Developing Decision Support Tools for Florida’s Traffic Management Centers

The latest edition of Research Pays Off explores a data analytics tool developed by the Florida Department of Transportation that combines archived intelligent transportation systems (ITS) data collected at the state’s regional transportation management centers (TMCs) with data from other sources to inform transportation planning and operation decisions. With traffic analysis, simulation modeling, data fusion and mining, and optimization, the accumulated data can support performance measurement, planning, operations, and management.

Research Pays Off is a regular series highlighted in TRB’s bimonthly magazine, TR News. The TR News is TRB's bimonthly magazine featuring timely articles on innovative and state-of-the-art research and practice in all modes of transportation. It also includes brief news items of interest to the transportation community, research pays off articles that profile of transportation professionals, workshop and conference announcements, new book notices, and news of TRB activities. Submissions of manuscripts for possible publication are accepted at any time.

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