An Application of Bluetooth Technology to Rural Freeway Speed Data Collection

Bluetooth devices are used in a data collection technique to support the measurement of travel times and speeds by comparing two or more time-stamped positional measurements. The purpose of this research is to develop a Bluetooth device capable of recording the media access control (MAC) addresses of target radios on Interstate 71 and calculating the resulting space mean speed. Based on the development of these Bluetooth devices, recommendations including node spacing configurations are developed for urban and rural settings along I-71. Ten Bluetooth node placements are deployed from August 2011 to July 2012. The initial deployments are used in the development of the technology including the optimization of the hardware, software, and data processing of the BTDCS. Nodes are placed at various distances throughout the remainder of the project in order to determine the optimum spacing. The nodes are also used to determine the amount of Bluetooth hits lost at interchanges, determine congestion in work zones using travel times and travel speeds as surrogate measures of congestion, and to test the feasibility of using fewer nodes to cover large distances in urban areas.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science in Engineering

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Civil Engineering

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Akron

Year dc:date

2013

Author dc:creator

• Holik, William A.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Schneider IV, William

• Civil Engineering
• Bluetooth
• Speed Data Collection

Statement dc:rights

• unrestricted
• This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws.

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1365777138

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:etd.ohiolink.edu:akron1365777138