Common use of Research Objectives Clause in Contracts

Research Objectives. The objectives of this study included the following: • Improve the IID estimation algorithm and enhance its applicability by limiting the input to traffic volume only. Since volume can be directly measured by single loop detectors, the most common type of traffic sensors in the existing roadway network, an IID estimation algorithm requiring only volume input is highly desirable. • Implement the new IID estimation approach in a computer program for automatically quantifying IIDs on a regional freeway network. • Expand the database developed in Phase I to support IID analysis on a larger freeway network, i.e., the Puget Sound regional freeway network. • Present the incident information together with IID estimates on the Digital Roadway Interactive Visualization and Evaluation Network (DRIVE Net), a regional map- based online data sharing, modeling, and analysis platform developed by the Smart Transportation Applications and Research Laboratory (STAR Lab).