This project is evaluating a truck dispatch optimization system that Productivity Apex, Inc is developing under FHWA guidance. The freight advanced traveler information system (FRATIS) system is being deployed in Dallas, Texas, in association with major reconstruction work on I-35, a corridor that represents 11 of the 100 most congested roadways in Texas. The project involves the development of a geographic information data system that tracks truck movements and provides a variety of performance metrics on the basis of those movements. Successful demonstration of FRATIS on a statewide freeway corridor that contains significant work zone activity and congestion will highlight to the nation’s over-the-road trucking companies the benefits of FRATIS applications.
Principal Investigator: Mark E. Hallenbeck, Washington State Transportation Center, UW
Sponsors:
FHWA
Cambridge Systematics
Scheduled completion: June 2018