摘要: |
Macomb County, MI, USA sits in metropolitan Detroit as the third most populous county in Michigan and the home to automotive anc defense companies. As with most public road agencies, improving motorists' safety and mobility is a key goal, where Macomb County seeks to leverage new, innovative strategies to further expand beyond the capabilities of traditional traffic engineering tactics. Connected vehicle (CV) technology is thought to be the next step in reducing vehicle-to-vehicle and vulnerable road user crashes and improving vehicles' arrival on green and priority/pre-emption need;The dilemma on which CV technology should be deployed first-equipment in vehicles or roadside infrastructure-has been a long-standing consideration for both maintaining agencies and vehicle manufacturers. Macomb County has taken the initiative to deploy CV roadside equipment so that the infrastructure is immediately available as the CVs hit the road. As Macomb County is home to multiple automotive and OEMs (original equipment manufacturers), there is the added benefit that the transportation network may be used as a test environment with the intention of allowing applications to be fine-tuned for immediate implementation. An advanced ITS infrastructure made it conducive for CV deployments, which includes modernized traffic signal controllers (open platform 2070 ATC with Linux base), centralized signal system (CENTRACS), state-of-the-art Traffic Operations Center, and a robust county owned communication system (wireless and fiber). |