Development of Integrated Data Collection and Enforcement System
Ahmad Saifizul Abdullah, Mohamed Rehan Karim, Hideo YAMANAKA · 17th ITS World CongressITS JapanITS AmericaERTICO · 2010
Generally traffic engineering involves traffic data collection for statistics, traffic monitoring, traffic enforcement such as speed and weight limit enforcement and traffic management. Currently, many kinds of systems or devices are available which measure or monitor or enforce traffic dedicatedly. The use of these dedicated or non-integrated systems or devices in traffic data-collection or monitoring and traffic enforcement may have some drawbacks in terms of data consistency, data sharing and data management as well as reducing cooperation efficiency among road and enforcement agencies. In addition, due to the limited measurement capability of each system or device such as incomprehensive measurable traffic parameters, it has resulted in the total cost ineffective traffic data collection and monitoring, inefficient and ineffective speed and weight enforcement, and extremely difficult to accomplish the actual regulation related to specific speed limit enforcement for heavy vehicle. The existing system or device for measuring dedicated traffic parameters can be integrated to provide an integrated system for traffic data collection, monitoring and enforcement purposes. However, this method will definitely not be cost effective, reliable and time saving. This paper presents the development of a quartz sensor based integrated traffic data-collection and monitoring system, variable speed limit enforcement system and a weigh-in-motion based weight enforcement system. Results from field tests show that the developed system complies with local and international standards. This paper also discusses some potential contributions of the system to transportation area.