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Technical Tours
The Conference Committee is organizing technical tours to destinations of interest, including the ITS Centre and Testbed at the University of Toronto, and the COMPASS Freeway Traffic Management Centre.
ITS Centre and Testbed at the University of Toronto
The ITS Centre and Testbed provides an instrumented, multijurisdictional, multiagency transportation operations environment linked to university laboratories for real-world development, testing, and evaluation of ITS technologies and applications. It is also a meeting ground or melting pot for public, academic, and private practitioners and researchers to explore new approaches to transportation system management. It offers a site for private industry to demonstrate and evaluate its prototype technologies under live traffic conditions and an ongoing testing ground for Canadian ITS efforts.
COMPASS Freeway Traffic Management Centre
COMPASS is a high-tech Freeway Traffic Management System developed by the Ontario Ministry of Transportation (MTO) to respond to traffic congestion problems on urban freeways. COMPASS helps reduce traffic congestion and increase safety by:
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allowing for the prompt detection and removal of freeway incidents and vehicle breakdowns; |
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providing accurate and timely freeway incident and delay information to motorists; and, |
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effectively managing peak rush hour traffic flow through innovative traffic control devices. |
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