Neyolight
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Hello Folks
Well I have a small question regarding some transport related issue and was wondering if we have any transport engineer on board.
I have been reading about SCATS (Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System) and its use across the world. SCATS is a traffic managment tool that works by sensing traffic data and using the data to alter signal timing at a traffic light intersection. Though SCATS was developed in Sydeny , but today more than 22000 intersections across the world are controlled by this traffic managment tool.
You may have notices that "sensing traffic data" is in bold in above paragraph. This is because my question is regarding the format of this data. I know what SCATS senses - gap between vehicles. I know how SCATS's sensors ( inductive loop detector) works. What I dont know is the format of this data. Inductive loop is an analog sensor which outputs 1 and 0. 1 represent vehicle over the loop and 0 represents no vehicle over the loop. The inductive loop outputs this information to a local controller present at an interection.
The local controller transfers "data" to the SCATS region computer. Now my question is regarding the format of this data. Is it a set of 0s and 1s directly from the loop or calculated gap for SCATS to process.
Thanks in advance
Well I have a small question regarding some transport related issue and was wondering if we have any transport engineer on board.
I have been reading about SCATS (Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System) and its use across the world. SCATS is a traffic managment tool that works by sensing traffic data and using the data to alter signal timing at a traffic light intersection. Though SCATS was developed in Sydeny , but today more than 22000 intersections across the world are controlled by this traffic managment tool.
You may have notices that "sensing traffic data" is in bold in above paragraph. This is because my question is regarding the format of this data. I know what SCATS senses - gap between vehicles. I know how SCATS's sensors ( inductive loop detector) works. What I dont know is the format of this data. Inductive loop is an analog sensor which outputs 1 and 0. 1 represent vehicle over the loop and 0 represents no vehicle over the loop. The inductive loop outputs this information to a local controller present at an interection.
The local controller transfers "data" to the SCATS region computer. Now my question is regarding the format of this data. Is it a set of 0s and 1s directly from the loop or calculated gap for SCATS to process.
Thanks in advance
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