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9 This chapter briefly reviews proprietary data sources, services, their uses, as well as past procurement experiences. The focus is on emerging proprietary data generated by technology (e.g., GPS and crowdsourcing)
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10 Practices on Acquiring Proprietary Data for Transportation Applications agencies to direct significant resources toward the deployment, operation, and maintenance of these sensors. Because of limited funding and federal requirements pertaining to the distribution of travel information, major highways such as freeways in urban areas are often well instrumented, while urban arterials and rural roads are less likely to have enough coverage (Crowson and Deeter 2012)
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Overview of Proprietary Data 11 Figure 2. A screenshot of I-95 Corridor Coalition live traffic map (I-95 Corridor Coalition 2018)
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12 Practices on Acquiring Proprietary Data for Transportation Applications queue development over time caused by two crashes on a section of I-65 northbound in Indiana. The initial crash occurred at around 8:30 a.m.
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Overview of Proprietary Data 13 The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) acquires historical probe-vehicle speed data to support its congestion management program and to evaluate roadway performance (Chen and Zhang 2017)
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14 Practices on Acquiring Proprietary Data for Transportation Applications LBS data have been integrated with probe-vehicle data for transportation applications. Data providers have established cloud-based platforms that let users query trips between userspecified origins and destinations.
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Overview of Proprietary Data 15 heavy truck volume observed on Florida's highways. Using these data, Florida DOT developed truck travel speed by time of day for the state's Strategic Intermodal System highway network.
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16 Practices on Acquiring Proprietary Data for Transportation Applications were used to develop regression models to evaluate bike ridership for non-commuter and commuter trips during weekdays and weekends, respectively. Watkins et al.
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Overview of Proprietary Data 17 Digital map and aerial imagery Six states have acquired street maps and imagery from private vendors. Agencies obtained these data because they are more cost-efficient than collecting and maintaining image collections in-house.
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18 Practices on Acquiring Proprietary Data for Transportation Applications • FHWA report, Private Sector Data for Performance Management, • NCHRP Project 70-01: Private-Sector Provision of Congestion Data, • California Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology (PATH) pilot procurement of third-party data, and • FHWA report, Applying Archived Operations Data in Transportation Planning: A Primer.
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Overview of Proprietary Data 19 The three criteria on which proposals were to be judged included technical competency, evidence of past performance, and cost–price, with each factor being weighted differently in the assessment. Technical competency was more critical than evidence of past performance, while the combined weight of these criteria approximately equaled that of price.
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20 Practices on Acquiring Proprietary Data for Transportation Applications Extensive validation work has been performed by VPP. The 2009 validation summary report discussed the process for validating probe data (Haghani et al.
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Overview of Proprietary Data 21 they gradually shift to licensing data and service from a third party. This approach consists of the following four steps: • Step 1.
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22 Practices on Acquiring Proprietary Data for Transportation Applications some suggestions to agencies wanting to procure data from private vendors (Bauer et al.
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Overview of Proprietary Data 23 data to anyone and for any purpose" (Turner et al.
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24 Practices on Acquiring Proprietary Data for Transportation Applications a special action in superior court. While the public can inspect bids and proposals after a contract has been awarded, a vendor has the option of designating material in their bid documents as trade secrets or as proprietary.
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Overview of Proprietary Data 25 Court has observed that -- along with explicit provisions that limit the release of public records -- state courts have recognized other limitations on disclosure, "including the requirement that the harm to the public should be balanced against the benefit of disclosure to the public" (State v. Beaver Dam Area Development Corporation)
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