Project: Transportation infrastructure security monitoring

Principle Investigator: Dr. William Scherer, University of Virginia, 804-982-2069, wts@virginia.edu

Project Objective: To help mobilize the resources of UVA's Smart Travel Center to support CapWIN. (Full project title: Incident analysis, information assurance, and data visualization for CapWIN)

Project Abstract: This project will extend and refine the Center's currently underway "CapWIN evaluation", which is examining how UVA's Smart Traffic Lab can support CapWIN through improved information analysis and incident management tools. CapWIN is a major pilot project in the National Capital Region developing both the technical and institutional tools to link together the communications systems of some two dozen area police, fire, emergency and transportation agencies so they can better coordinate with one another during major traffic incidents.

Milestones: Project completion by June 30, 2005. (Assumes no-cost grant extension.)

Student Involvement: 1 Master's student; 4 undergraduates

Budget

FY04

Faculty 10,000

FY05

Faculty 30,000
Students 10,000

Project total 50,000

Relation to other research: Flows directly from ITS Center project "CapWIN evaluation".

Technology Transfer: Direct transfer to the professionals managing CapWIN

Potential Benefits: This project will directly improve the operations of CapWIN, while also improving the overall robustness of UVA Smart Travel Center database.

TRB Keywords: ITS, traffic management, security