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Technology Devices for Transportation Operations and Maintenance

PRELIMINARY WARRANTS QUESTIONNAIRE

DMS WARRANT - 2:

TO INFORM TRAVELERS OF TRAFFIC CONDITIONS

Purpose: To provide current traffic status information (incidents, congestion, travel time, road work) to drivers so that drivers can choose to divert to avoid the situation, to reduce driver anxiety, and to reduce crashes involving drivers encountering unexpected stopped traffic.

To begin the process of determing if deployment is warranted at your location, please answer the following questions and click the submit button at the bottom of the page.

The preliminary warrants are entirely intended to serve agencies in the operations and maintenance device deployment decision making process. The warrants can also be used to validate existing device deployments.

To view decision criteria, click here.

Step 1: Describe the candidate DMS location.
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Step 2: Answer the following DMS questions:
1. Is the target area monitored by CCTV cameras, traffic detectors, or another method of monitoring the conditions, or are travel times for the downstream stretch of road available?	Yes No
2. Do events occur in the area that unexpectedly impact or impede traffic (e.g. close a lane, encounter slow traffic in one or more lanes, or events on the shoulder) an average of at least two times per month?	Yes No
3. Are there acceptable alternate routes with adequate capacity to accept vehicles that may deviate based upon the information?	Yes No
4. Is the location a stretch of road where no alternate routes are possible and travelers would benefit from information describing the cause and/or extent of delays in order to relieve driver anxiety or confusion?	Yes No
5. Are there horizontal or vertical curves that create safety issues when traffic is stopped unexpectedly?	Yes No
6. Does the route being considered for the DMS have on average: At least 2 hours per day of peak period travel where traffic flow exceeds 1,100 veh/hour/lane; or Experiences conditions considered Level of Service C; or Experiences Average Annual Daily Traffic (AADT) of 16,800 for a 2 lane road, 33,600 vehicles for a 4 lane road, 50,400 vehicles for a 6 lane road; 67,200 for an 8 lane road.	Yes No

Step 3: Answer the following survey questions (optional):
Is the device already deployed?	Yes No
Was this form easy to fill out?	Yes No
Did you have to contact others within your organization to answer the questions?	Yes No
Were the questions detailed enough?	Yes No
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Step 4: Include User Information (optional):
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Step 5: Click Submit.

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