The Centre for Urban Freight Analysis is a multi-purpose facility for the advancement of freight research. The Centre consists of the following new physical infrastructure:
- A dedicated space in the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Centre & Testbed at the University of Toronto, featuring a new interactive video wall for the display of real-time truck location data
- A series of 30 “Base-stations” installed on traffic camera poles along freeway corridors throughout the Toronto Area. These units receive route tracking and engine information from 20,000+ trucks enrolled in the fleet management program of Turnpike Global Technologies, a project partner. This large number of base-stations will result in truck location data that is very close to “real-time”
- Electronic links to the ITS Centre & Testbed for the transmission and integration of real-time “public-sector” traffic flow information with real-time “private-sector” truck routing information.
The Centre performs the following functions:
- Gathers and archives real-time truck location and engine data
- Provides real-time GPS-based traffic information to the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario
- Provides an interactive space for research
Principal Investigator: M. J. Roorda