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Building an Online ITS Research and Training Facility – the ICAT Database and Platform

Simon Foo simon.foo@utoronto.ca Ph.D. Candidate University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada In collaboration with Roger Browne, Eamonn Doherty, Dave Ashton and Dr. Baher Abdulhai. Building an Online ITS Research and Training Facility – the ICAT Database and Platform. What is ICAT?.

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Building an Online ITS Research and Training Facility – the ICAT Database and Platform

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  1. Simon Foo simon.foo@utoronto.ca Ph.D. Candidate University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada In collaboration with Roger Browne, Eamonn Doherty, Dave Ashton and Dr. Baher Abdulhai Building an Online ITS Research and Training Facility – the ICAT Database and Platform

  2. ICAT Database and Platform ITSC 2006 What is ICAT? ICAT = ITS Centre and Testbed – a world class lab doing transportation research at the University of Toronto, Canada Live data + video connections to Ontario Ministry of Transportation (MTO) and to the City of Toronto via fibre-optic links

  3. ICAT Database and Platform ITSC 2006 Key ICAT Platform Objectives • Archived data user service (ADUS): • Archives traffic data • Makes traffic data readily available • Provides basic data visualization functions • Facilitates the “build once, use many times” research framework • Provides an API for traffic data access • Allows rapid deployment of custom data analysis tools on the ICAT website

  4. Key Hardware Components Siemens Optical Transport Network (OTN) ICAT Database & Web Server City Fibre Data MTO Fibre Video Signal Internet Digital Video Recorders ICAT Database and Platform ITSC 2006 Video Wall

  5. ICAT Database and Platform ITSC 2006 Base Software Operating System (Linux) Database Server LAMP Platform-Independent Open-Source Free Web Server Server-side Scripting

  6. ICAT Database and Platform ITSC 2006 ICAT Database and Platform Travel Time Prediction COMPASS Camera Image Website Grabber Freeway CSV Formatted Client-side Web-based Data Performance Access script data file Applications Evaluation MTO-HAWK MTO Traffic Compass Database XML Formatted Automatic Incident data file Detection (Future Algorithms Expansion) "MTO-UTPROC" Information Traffic Apache + PHP ICAT Database Theoretic Analysis "Datagrabber" Web Server Server- of Traffic Data side Web Applications "City-UTPROC" Other Custom PHP Applications RESCU City CMS Log Traffic RESCU Summary Database Main ICAT Traffic Data Map Camera Image Platform Website RESCU Website Grabber Incident Log ICAT Platform Summary Website Camera Images Environment Datagrabber Canada Other for other data sources Traffic Data Data Other TMCs Graphs Sources (Future Expansion) ICAT Software Architecture

  7. ICAT Database and Platform ITSC 2006 What’s in the ICAT Database? Loop Detector Data 20s lane volume, occupancy, speed Static Camera Images Every 3 minutes Changeable Message Sign Messages Operator Incident Log

  8. ICAT Database and Platform ITSC 2006 ICAT Website

  9. ICAT Database and Platform ITSC 2006 Unique Features Generic R&D framework for traffic data Users can develop their own applications. Integrates VDS, CMS, incident and camera images A system that can be used to test real-time ITS applications Highly expandable Unified database structure – easy to add new data sources Applied and tested with data from multiple nations Canada – Toronto and Ontario Netherlands US – Minnesota Based only on free, open-source software

  10. ICAT Database and Platform ITSC 2006 ICAT Platform Demo • Visit us at: • Technical tour – ITS Centre and Testbed • on Wednesday 13:40 – 17:00 • Contact: • Simon Foo • simon.foo@utoronto.ca

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