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Michael Pack, director of the Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Laboratory (CATT Lab) was interviewed on WTOP Radio on August 5, 2007 to discuss the traffic buster. Below is a transcript of the interview provided by the National Academy of Engineering of the National Academies. To listen to the interview, click here.
Randy Atkins: Local officials are now testing a system that collects all regional traffic data, fuses it together, and instantly presents it in each jurisdiction’s own format.
Michael Pack: Virginia is now able to see all the accidents that are occurring in Maryland.
Randy Atkins: Michael Pack, a University of Maryland engineer, says it can predict effects of multiple incidents and quicken emergency response.
Michael Pack: The quicker that you can get that accident cleaned up and moved off of the road the quicker that traffic can return to normal.
Randy Atkins: The system, which provides traffic speed and volume data along with accident info, may also be offered to the public.
Michael Pack: So WTOP would have access to it as well.
Randy Atkins: Local officials are now testing a system that collects all regional traffic data, fuses it together, and instantly presents it in each jurisdiction’s own format.
Michael Pack: Virginia is now able to see all the accidents that are occurring in Maryland.
Randy Atkins: Michael Pack, a University of Maryland engineer, says it can predict effects of multiple incidents and quicken emergency response.
Michael Pack: The quicker that you can get that accident cleaned up and moved off of the road the quicker that traffic can return to normal.
Randy Atkins: The system, which provides traffic speed and volume data along with accident info, may also be offered to the public.
Michael Pack: So WTOP would have access to it as well.
Randy Atkins: With the National Academy of Engineering, Randy Atkins, WTOP Radio.
August 5, 2007
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