SBIR Phase II: A Cloud Managed Solution for Public Transit Signal Priority and Emergency Vehicle Preemption of Traffic Lights

SBIR 第二阶段：用于公共交通信号优先和紧急车辆抢占交通灯的云管理解决方案

• 批准号: 1831086
• 负责人: Timothy Menard
• 金额: $ 75万
• 依托单位: SinWaves, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2022-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1831086&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Cloud; Managed

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is to lay a foundation for vehicle to infrastructure communication focused on applications that add direct value to mobility. Many solutions are focused on getting information to the vehicle, while it is often the infrastructure that requires vehicle information to operate more efficiently. Currently, traffic signals enforce the right-of-way of everyone regardless of in-vehicle technology. This is why optimizing their effects on the road network can provide tremendous benefit. There are significant benefits to transit as well, like buses and light rail that, when given priority at intersections, improves on-time performance which is a major factor in ridership rates.The proposed project advances the work of the joint standardization of the National Transportation Communications for Intelligent Transportation Systems Protocol (NTCIP) to achieve interoperability between various traffic signal controller vendors to enable shared control and organization between different operating agencies. It is not unusual to have sections of roadway be managed by local, county, and state within the same small area. These overlapping jurisdictions produce fractures within the road network resulting in the asynchronous timing of traffic signals. The aim is to consolidate the management into a signal network capable of coordinating large areas of traffic signals to increase mobility's overall efficiency. With a cloud solution that is capable of speaking to each networked intersection, vehicle telemetry data and route information can be used to proactively optimize signal timing. Working with prioritized vehicles such as buses, fire trucks, and ambulances, pilot studies will be conducted to perform priority and preemption along routes that cross jurisdictions. Each pilot case will be analysed based on key performance indicators set forth by the agencies.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力是为车辆到基础设施通信奠定基础，重点是为移动性增加直接价值的应用。许多解决方案都专注于将信息传输到车辆，而通常是基础设施需要车辆信息才能更有效地运行。目前，交通信号强制每个人的通行权，而不管车载技术如何。这就是为什么优化它们对道路网络的影响可以带来巨大的好处。交通也有很大的好处，比如公共汽车和轻轨，当它们在十字路口被优先考虑时，提高了准点性能，这是乘客率的主要因素。拟议的项目推进了国家智能交通系统协议（NTCIP）的联合标准化工作以实现各种交通信号控制器供应商之间的互操作性，从而实现不同运营机构之间的共享控制和组织。在同一个小区域内，由地方、县和州管理的路段并不罕见。这些重叠的管辖区在道路网络中产生断裂，导致交通信号的异步定时。其目的是将管理整合到一个能够协调大面积交通信号的信号网络中，以提高移动性的整体效率。借助能够与每个联网交叉路口通话的云解决方案，车辆遥测数据和路线信息可用于主动优化信号配时。与优先车辆，如公共汽车，消防车和救护车，将进行试点研究，以执行优先和抢占沿着跨越管辖区的路线。每个试点项目都将根据各机构提出的关键绩效指标进行分析。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。