TORONTO--TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
1998; Institute of Transportation Engineers; Volume: 68; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
0162-8178
Autores Tópico(s)Vehicle License Plate Recognition
ResumoThis paper describes three state-of-the-art transportation projects in Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Highway 407 Express Toll Route (407 ETR), Toronto Traffic Signal Control System (TSCS)/Road Emergency Services Communications Unit (RESCU), and Highway 401 COMPASS. The Highway 407 ETR represents Canada's first major public/private financed infrastructure project and the world's first open road with an all-electronic toll collection system. Regular users with transponders that attach to the windshield are billed from their toll account on a monthly basis. Occasional users without a transponder are identified via high-speed cameras mounted on gantries at the on/off ramps, which take a license plate photo image and digitally process it, thus identifying the user. A bill is then sent to the owner's home address. The Toronto TSCS is responsible for the control of 1,786 traffic signals within the City of Toronto, which has more than 4,500 inductive loop detectors. RESCU is responsible for monitoring traffic operations and issuing motorist advisories on approximately 30 km of highways using 36 closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras, 121 vehicle detection stations (VDS), a 12-km section that has automated incident detection and 12 variable message signs, 6 rotating drum signs, and 2 portable changeable message signs (CMS). Highway 401 COMPASS is the name of Ontario's Freeway Traffic Management System that operates along the second busiest freeway in North America. It is a high-tech tool for managing traffic on urban freeways and includes four basic subsystems: VDS, CCTV, CMS, and fiber optic communications.
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