The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) has implemented freeway service patrol programs at major urban areas to ease traffic congestion due to non-recurring incidents. This paper describes an effort to use data mining techniques to extract information from the service patrol databases for Broward and Palm Beach counties, Florida. A pattern-based geocoding process was developed to geocode the databases. Geocoding was needed because the incident records do not contain specific geographic coordinates, but only a general description of the incident locations. An intelligent parser program was developed to scan and parse location information patterns to identify specific geographic locations. The program was able to achieve a high geocoding rate of over 95% for the service databases. A spatial analysis example making use of the geocoded data was demonstrated.


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    Title :

    Analyzing Freeway Service Patrol Data


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Ninth International Conference on Applications of Advanced Technology in Transportation (AATT) ; 2006 ; Chicago, Illinois, United States



    Publication date :

    2006-08-04




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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