ITS: TRAFFIC BASELINE INFORMATION OBTAINED USING PROBE CARS IS THE KEY TO ADDRESS METRO MANILA TRAFFIC CONGESTIONS

ITS: TRAFFIC BASELINE INFORMATION OBTAINED USING PROBE CARS IS THE KEY TO ADDRESS METRO MANILA TRAFFIC CONGESTIONS

Reigna Jewel Ritz MACABABBAD
Graduate Student,
Institute of Civil Engineering,
UP Diliman

Jose Regin REGIDOR, Dr. Eng.
Associate Professor,
Institute of Civil Engineering,
UP Diliman


ABSTRACT: Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) technologies can supplement construction-based methods to improve the capacity of existing transportation systems. ITS then, presents viable solution to traffic congestion problems rather than focus only on the intensive road infrastructure developments and improvements. Baseline traffic information such as speed, and travel time along road networks, a fundamental knowledge-based resource used in traffic management, assessments and planning, can be obtained only through sustainable data collection system. Examination of ITS technologies shows that probe car survey system is a sustainable data collection method to gather real-time and historical traffic information.

[Presented in the 17th Annual Conference of the Transportation Science Society of the Philippines]