FHWA Saxton Transportation Operations Laboratory Seeks Volunteers

The Federal Highway Adminstration (FHWA Saxton Transportation Operations Laboratory is comprised of three testbeds: a Data Resources Testbed , a Concepts and Analysis Testbed, and a Cooperative Vehicle-Highway Testbed. The Concepts and Analysis Testbed incorporates a repository of transportation models at the macroscopic, mesoscopic, and microscopic levels to allow simulation runs and visualizations of representative traffic networks and experimental strategies to improve performance, including measures of safety (to some extent), mobility, and environmental performance. Within the Concepts and Analysis Testbed, FHWA created the "Data Hub" to simplify complex transportation analyses requiring more than a single resolution (macro, meso, micro, deterministic), for applications such as Integrated Corridor Management (ICM), roadway pricing/tolling, and air quality analysis. The Data Hub uses a data schema to manage the interchange of data from common off-the-shelf software programs. FHWA now seeking researchers to test drive the software and provide feedback on how to make it more useful, seamless, and applicable to day-to-day modeling work. For more information, see http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/research/operations/datamodelsims/13087/index.cfm.