Tom Trunda FL Dept. of Transportation Office of Motor Carrier

Tom Trunda
FL Dept. of Transportation
Office of Motor Carrier Compliance
District Information Services Manager
Tom trunda@dot state fl us
Tom.trunda@dot.state.fl.us
Florida VWS Deployment
y Who we are:
y Information Technology group within MCCO
y Participated in the RFP process defining system processes
y Responsible for technical operations
y Support field operations
Florida VWS Deployment
y What we’ll discuss
y WIM
y ByPass
y LPR
Florida VWS Deployment
y VWIM – Weigh in Motion: The ability to perform specific dimensional tests on mainline or access road.
y MCCO performs VWIM at weigh stations and certain alternate routes
y Today
Today’s discussion will be on alternate route tests
s discussion will be on alternate route tests.
Florida VWS Deployment
Florida VMS Deployment
y Punta Gorda, FL ‐ VWIM bypass
y Loop in road that weighs trucks
y Camera takes picture of SIDE of Truck (DOT number)
y wireless back to station – no operation at the scale
y Officer logs onto webpage to the VWIM server at HQ y Picture of truck and weights displayed
Florida VWS Deployment ‐ PG
Florida VWS Deployment
Florida VMS Deployment ‐ PNS
y Bypass system – Pensacola FL
y Signs for trucks to stay in right lane. y Loop in road (same as PG) but s
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y HQ for display. HQ for display y Officer logs onto webpage to the VWIM server at HQ y Dumps raw data (number of truck, weights etc) for analysis. Currently monitoring number of vehicles per hour, weight C
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Florida VWS Deployment ‐ PNS
Florida VWS Deployment
Florida VWS Deployment ‐ LPR
y LPR – License Plate Reader. The ability to capture truck tag and run query against several databases
y Currently run against FCIC/NCIC Stolen Vehicles, C
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Florida VWS Deployment
y 2 distinct processes
y WIMS
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y Static Scales
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5 locations
At scale house
Florida VMS Deployment
y WIMS
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Black and white images
single image
2005 OCR technology
3 years Multiple backend rewrites
Florida VWS Deployment
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2 images per ‘shot’
Infrared lighting
PIPS Camera (Smart Technology)
Probability of accuracy
Certain state designation
6 months from time of contract execution
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Florida VWIM Deployment
y Issues and problems:
y Lighting
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Camera lighting
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y FL FL – Love Bugs
y Support
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2 different applications
Technology changes
Florida VWIM Deployment
y Questions?
y Comments?