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Design Laboratory Schedule |
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Date |
Objective |
Laboratory Activity Description |
Materials |
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24-Aug |
A/B
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(1) Passage Time and Detection: You will accomplish
the lab objectives using field data collected at the EB through lane of
the Deakin Avenue and 6th Street intersection. Using this data, you can
create a realistic representation of what a detector would output to a
controller and determine the gaps that a controller sees based on the
detector status. Once you determine what the controller can see, you can
then create a simple representation of what it would do given a passage
time setting. Connecting the concepts of what a controller sees to what
a controller does will then enable you to look at passage time from the
perspective of its two purposes mentioned in class. Then you can
establish a reasonable detector design, setback, and phase passage time. (Objective
A/B). |
Lab 1 (doc) Lab 1 Data (xls) |
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31-Aug |
H |
(2) Learn how to use VISSIM to model an
isolated actuated intersection.
Learn how to evaluate detector and controller settings (Objective H). |
Lab 2 (doc)
VISSIM Tutorial (pdf)
Simulation files (zip) |
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7-Sep |
H |
(3) HILS Introduction: Introduce them to HILS with
VISSIM. More advanced evaluation of detector and controller
settings, ending with the design of controller and detector settings for
an intersection (Objective H). (US 12 and 3rd in Lewiston) |
Lab 3 (doc) VISSIM / Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation (HILS) Tutorial (pdf)
US 12 and 3rd VISSIM Simulation files (zip)
ASC 2 documentation (pdf)
PEEK 9200 documentation (pdf) |
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14-Sep |
H |
(4) SILS (MOST LAB) (could be switched with lab 3): Beta
test of the MOST project Lab exercise 1 (Objective H). |
Lab 4 (doc) |
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21-Sep |
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Lab 4 continued |
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28-Sep |
C/D |
(5) HILS or SILS Establish Reasonable Controller
Settings: Design and alternatives evaluation of additional controller
settings (Objective C and D). |
Lab 5 (doc)
SH 8 and Farm Rd (zip)
Tutorial (pdf)
Full VAP file (txt)
CAD file (dwg,
pdf) |
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5-Oct |
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Lab 5 continued |
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12-Oct |
E |
(6) Design Lab Traffic system inventory and SYNCHRO introduction:
Design lab introduction and data collection. |
Lab 6(doc) |
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19-Oct |
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(7) Design Lab Volume data collection |
Lab 7 (doc) data form (xls)
October 16th database (xls)
Octover 23rd database (xls) |
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26-Oct |
E |
(8) Design Lab Applying Synchro: Isolated
intersection capacity analysis and signal timing. Full capacity and LOS analysis to
determine the best phasing, cycle length, and phase splits for
intersection (manual calculation of cycle length and green times given
capacity estimated in SYNCHRO) (Objective E). |
Lab 8 (doc) |
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9-Nov |
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Design Lab Open Lab: Review progress and
evaluate results. |
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16-Nov |
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(9) Fixed time coordination and Future conditions |
Lab 9 (doc) |
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30-Nov |
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(10) Actuated Signal Timing Design |
Lab 10 (doc)
VISSIM network Downloads:
Teams 1 and 4 (zip)
Teams 2 and 5 (zip)
Teams 3 and 6 (zip) |
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30-Nov |
I/J/K |
(12) Design Lab Actuated Coordination: Actuated
coordination design and evaluation (implementing what was learned in Lab
11) design the coordination settings, program them into the
controller, and test them using HILS (Objective I/J/K). |
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7-Dec |
L |
(13) Final project presentation |
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2-Nov |
E/D/C/H/B
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(9) Design Lab HILS Implement and Evaluate Signal Timing
Plan: Isolated intersection design evaluation with
microsimulation. Map detectors to the phases, locate detectors, establish
detector settings. Program controller with the signal timing plan
determined from Lab 8 and the detector settings. Evaluate the quality of
service relative to common design mistakes (Objective E/D/C/H/A/B). |
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16-Nov |
I/J/K |
(11) HILS Modeling Actuated Coordinated Systems:
Given the signal timing plans for arterial intersections, design the
coordination settings, program them into the controllers, and test them
(Objective I/J/K). |
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