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TAC hears VTrans update: Bluetooth sensor pilot to be phased out as better traffic-data tools emerge
Summary
CCRPC Transportation Advisory Committee was told VTrans will not keep maintaining a 2015 Bluetooth sensor pilot after repeated failures; VTrans is moving to other traffic-data products, launching a Thin Client ATMS and an updated 511 traveler-information site, and exploring improved walk/bike data options.
Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission’s Transportation Advisory Committee on March 8 heard a multi-agency update on regional intelligent transportation system (ITS) efforts and the future of a Bluetooth-based traffic monitoring pilot.
Sai Sarepalli of CCRPC and VTrans staff described an Accelerated Innovation Deployment (AID) FHWA project begun in 2015 that installed 33 BlueTOAD Spectra Bluetooth sensors across five corridors in Chittenden County to test real-time travel-time monitoring. Officials said the pilot produced useful research but proved unreliable in routine operations: some sensors failed to collect data consistently, Vermont winters reduced reliability, and systems powered via Power over Ethernet (PoE) performed better than solar-plus-battery retrofits. CCRPC and VTrans told…
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