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... 72 Ontario Commercial Vehicle Survey Use of Geographic Information Systems for Data Collection, Processing, Analysis, and Dissemination Selva Sureshan, Ontario Ministry of Transportation The Ontario Commercial Vehicle Survey (CVS) ispart of the National Roadside Study (NRS)
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... four location-based data points indirectly related to that trip. An application, ROCMOD, ran in the TransCAD environment and provided all this information on a single screen to process the surveys on a record-by-record basis.
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... OTHER INNOVATIVE COMMERCIAL VEHICLE TRACKING METHODS Roadside interviews are the most suitable avenue for collecting data about intercity movements. However, the use of roadside surveys in an urban environment is impossible because of safety issues.

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