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System Monitoring Program

Description

Researchers in the System Monitoring Program employ state-of-the-art sensors to monitor vehicle characteristics, with an emphasis on commercial vehicles. Recent studies have investigated long-term research into vehicle detection technologies, developing and implementing a traffic monitoring equipment evaluation facility, truck accommodation design guidance, strategies for separating trucks from passenger vehicle traffic, innovative methods to reduce stops to trucks, truck accident countermeasures on urban freeways, effects of warning devices on truck speeds, the impacts of commodity movements in Texas, and the oversize/overweight permit policy in Texas.

Expertise

Researchers in the System Monitoring Program have expertise in the following areas:

  • Vehicle detection and other sensing technologies,
  • Special applications of microprocessor-based systems, and
  • Impacts of large commercial vehicles.

Cooperative Relationships/Sponsors

The System Monitoring Program has cooperative relationships with the following sponsors:

  • Texas Department of Transportation, and
  • Federal Highway Administration, and
  • Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

For More Information

Dan Middleton
Gibb Gilchrist Building, Room 140
TTI/System Monitoring Program
Texas A&M University System
3135 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3135
ph. (979) 845-1536 · fax (979) 845-9873
d-middleton@tamu.edu

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