[Fwd: RE: Speed data for urban commercial vehicles.] - ABJ30-news

8 Sep 2006

Can anyone help David with his request, see below?  In particular I was
thinking that Cath Lawson, Shawn Turner or Carl Petty might know of
something specific.  Besides, this might be a break from papers.  So far
of the 51 papers we are playing with there are 53 of the 192 outstanding
reviews turned in.

-----Original Message-----
From: David Corley [mailto:rcorley@siue.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 2:41 PM
To: Murakami, Elaine
Subject: Speed data for urban commercial vehicles.

Hello.

I am an mechanical engineering student working on my senior project.  I
am
looking for speed profile data for a commercial vehicle driving a
typical urban route.  Specifically I am looking for something like a
text file with the speed of the vehicle sampled twice a second.

Is this data available from your organization?

If not, do you know where I might find such data?

Thank you
David Corley
Southern Illinois Univeristy Edwardsville.

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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: Speed data for urban commercial vehicles.
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 09:47:54 -0700
From: "Murakami, Elaine" &lt;Elaine.Murakami(a)fhwa.dot.gov&gt;
To: "David Corley" &lt;rcorley(a)siue.edu&gt;
CC: "Ed Christopher" &lt;edc(a)berwyned.com&gt;

Sorry for the delayed response, but I have been having trouble with my
email!  

Most of the work I have done has used GPS, so it is limited to 1-second
intervals.  Also, most commercial fleet management software uses GPS, so
has a similar limitation.  You will probably have a lot of difficulty
finding a public dataset with sub-second data, combined with GPS,
because it would most likely need to be tied to the OBD.  You best bet
is to find someone at EPA ( I just left a voice mail for someone at EPA
in Ann Arbor).  IF (big IF) they have something like that you and your
professor would need to sign a confidentiality agreement to have access.
Another potential source is the California Air Resources Board.  

You could try Bob Leore at Transport Canada, who did a presentation in
Minneapolis at the NATMEC conference on combining OBD-II and GPS.  I
didn't attend his presentation, did not get a copy of his ppt, so I
don't know if he has implemented any data collection, and if so, on what
vehicles.  I don't have his email address, and it wasn't on the
conference list of attendees!  I'm sure you can find it.

I will CC  Ed Christopher who chairs the TRB urban data committee.
Maybe he knows of some other possibilities.  Or, you could try posting
your query on the TMIP listserv.  

Elaine Murakami
FHWA Office of Planning (Wash DC)