Skip to main content

Parsons to design traffic management system for Florida’s I-95

The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) District Two has selected Parsons to provide final design services for an expansion of FDOT’s freeway traffic management system on I-95 from north of the Jacksonville International Airport to the Georgia state line. The 17-mile project will include various intelligent transportation systems and solutions, including archived data management, automatic vehicle identification, closed-circuit television cameras, dynamic message signs, microwave vehicle detectio
July 1, 2016 Read time: 1 min
The 4503 Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) District Two has selected 4089 Parsons to provide final design services for an expansion of FDOT’s freeway traffic management system on I-95 from north of the Jacksonville International Airport to the Georgia state line.

The 17-mile project will include various intelligent transportation systems and solutions, including archived data management, automatic vehicle identification, closed-circuit television cameras, dynamic message signs, microwave vehicle detection, and road weather information.

Parsons will be responsible for designing the communications backbone for the traffic management system, as well as identifying and designing the individual devices required to fully cover the corridor.

For more information on companies in this article

Related Content

  • California DOT installs driver information signs
    January 29, 2013
    California DOT (Caltrans) is installing electronic message signs in an effort to prevent or reduce congestion on the heavily used Interstate 10. Vehicle detection systems have also been installed on the 133 mile stretch of freeway to monitor traffic. The detection systems monitor speed and traffic volume, processing the data and transmitting it to the freeway message signs to give motorists real-time journey time estimates. "Changeable message signs will allow us to deliver information directly to drivers
  • Cooperative systems and privacy not mutually exclusive
    February 1, 2012
    Are co-operative systems and personal privacy mutually exclusive? Not necessarily, says Neil Hoose. But the more advanced the application, the greater the concession of privacy may have to become. ITS Stockholm in 2009 and the Cooperative Mobility Showcase event which took place alongside Intertraffic in Amsterdam in March this year both featured live, on-street demonstrations of safety and driver information applications that used Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) and Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communications,
  • Cooperative systems and privacy not mutually exclusive
    February 6, 2012
    Are co-operative systems and personal privacy mutually exclusive? Not necessarily, says Neil Hoose. But the more advanced the application, the greater the concession of privacy may have to become
  • Toll plaza conversion will reduce congestion on I-95
    April 17, 2012
    In an effort to reduce congestion in a busy corridor for motorists and commercial freight carriers, Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) appointed TransCore as the lead integrator on a project to convert the Newark Toll Plaza on I-95, adding two new electronic highway speed lanes on both the north and south bound plazas. Plaza throughput is now about to jump from 250-300 transactions per lane per hour to an estimated 2,000. The US$32 million “shovel ready” project was fully funded through the Amer