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Freeway Performance Measurement Project Dashboard - Screenshot of vehicular traffic prediction graphs

The California Transportation department and UCLA at Berkeley put together a few years back the Freeway Performance Evaluation Monitoring System. These are screenshots of the dashboards that show data about the freeway systems in major metropolitan areas.

This first screenshot shows some interesting graphs. In the miles traveled chart, the green color shows actuals and the red shows projected. My question is why overwrite the projected with the actual and not show both? Don't you want to see actuals versus the projections?  The bottom graphs show the performance of the detectors out on the highways.

Enterprise Dashboard

I'm not even going to pretend to understand these next few screenshots. Traffic management is truly a black art. It's akin to fluid dynamics modeling, I suppose.

Dashboard Screenshot

Traffic Dashboard

Homework: Traffic flow modeling, whether on a highway road, or in a water pipe, or even on a communications network, is fascinating to study. If you want to read up more on how to optimize our roadways, check out these books on traffic engineering and analysis.

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