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Sept 19, 2006 Simon Foo
Dept. of Civil Engineering
ITS Centre and Testbed
Building an Online ITS Research and Training Facility – the ICAT Database and Platform
Simon [email protected]
Ph.D. CandidateUniversity of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
In collaboration with Roger Browne, Eamonn Doherty, Dave Ashton and Dr. Baher Abdulhai
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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
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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
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Key Hardware ComponentsSiemens Optical Transport Network (OTN) ICAT Database & Web Server
DigitalVideoRecorders
MTOFibre
CityFibre Data
Video Signal
Internet
Video Wall
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Base Software
Operating System (Linux)
Web Server
Database Server
Server-side Scripting
Free
Open-SourcePlatform-Independent
LAMP
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ICAT Software Architecture
ICAT Database and Platform
Traffic"Datagrabber" ICAT Database
Camera ImageGrabber
Camera ImageGrabber
Apache + PHPWeb Server
Main ICAT
Platform Website
Web-based DataAccess script
Datagrabberfor other data
sources
Client-sideApplications
CSV Formatteddata file
XML Formatteddata file(Future
Expansion)
Travel TimePrediction
FreewayPerformanceEvaluation
Automatic IncidentDetectionAlgorithms
CityRESCU
MTOCompass
"MTO-UTPROC"
MTO-HAWKTraffic
Database
"City-UTPROC"
RESCUTraffic
Database
COMPASSWebsite
RESCU Website
OtherDataSources(Future Expansion)
EnvironmentCanada
Other TMCs
Server-sideWeb
Applications
InformationTheoretic Analysis
of Traffic Data
OtherCustom PHPApplications
ICAT PlatformWebsite
Traffic Data Map
CMS LogSummary
Incident LogSummary
CameraImages
Traffic DataGraphs
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What’s in the ICAT Database?
Loop Detector Data20s lane volume, occupancy, speed
Changeable Message Sign Messages
Static Camera ImagesEvery 3 minutes
Operator Incident Log
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ICAT Website
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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
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ICAT Platform Demo
Visit us at: Technical tour – ITS Centre and Testbed on Wednesday 13:40 – 17:00
Contact: Simon Foo [email protected]
