摘要
To address the growing problem of congestion, delays, and overall traffic is</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">sues, DelDOT (Delaware Department of Transportation) established the</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> Transportation Management Center (TMC) in 1997. DelDOT-TMC also coordi</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">nates </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">and manages DelDOT’s response to any incident that impacts the</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> multimodal</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> transportation system within the state of Delaware. Among other things, DelDOT-TMC collects traffic, roadway weather, and hydrological data using </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">over a thousand monitoring devices installed throughout the state of</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> Delaware. </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">After data has been obtained, DelDOT-TMC analyzes and disseminates</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> real-time </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">travel information to the public through DelDOT’s website (online</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> interactive maps), smartphone application, traffic advisory radio, and social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Blog, and Flickr;however, the utilization and usability of this information by the public are, for the most part, unknown. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the global responsibilities of DelDOT-TMC and assess the process that DelDOT-TMC uses to gather, process, analyze, and distribute traffic and roadway weather data to the public. The study employs a survey to assess the utilization of DelDOT-TMC’s products, </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">i.e.</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">, DelDOT Mobile App, WTMC 1380 AM travel advisory radio, DelDOT’s public website, DelDOT’s social media, as well as the usability of the DelDOT mobile app to check DART (Delaware Authority for Regional Transportation) First State transit service schedules.
To address the growing problem of congestion, delays, and overall traffic is</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">sues, DelDOT (Delaware Department of Transportation) established the</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> Transportation Management Center (TMC) in 1997. DelDOT-TMC also coordi</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">nates </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">and manages DelDOT’s response to any incident that impacts the</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> multimodal</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> transportation system within the state of Delaware. Among other things, DelDOT-TMC collects traffic, roadway weather, and hydrological data using </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">over a thousand monitoring devices installed throughout the state of</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> Delaware. </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">After data has been obtained, DelDOT-TMC analyzes and disseminates</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> real-time </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">travel information to the public through DelDOT’s website (online</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> interactive maps), smartphone application, traffic advisory radio, and social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Blog, and Flickr;however, the utilization and usability of this information by the public are, for the most part, unknown. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the global responsibilities of DelDOT-TMC and assess the process that DelDOT-TMC uses to gather, process, analyze, and distribute traffic and roadway weather data to the public. The study employs a survey to assess the utilization of DelDOT-TMC’s products, </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">i.e.</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">, DelDOT Mobile App, WTMC 1380 AM travel advisory radio, DelDOT’s public website, DelDOT’s social media, as well as the usability of the DelDOT mobile app to check DART (Delaware Authority for Regional Transportation) First State transit service schedules.
作者
Ardeshir Faghri
Michael L. Vaughan
Abebaw Berihun
Ardeshir Faghri;Michael L. Vaughan;Abebaw Berihun(Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA;Office of the Interim Vice Provost for Diversity & Inclusion, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA)
