Transcoot: uma interface lógica para modelar e georeferenciar dados dinâmicos do tráfego urbano

Abstract

The management of urban traffic requires a continuous and systemic knowledge of urban trips, what demands a periodic and expensive effort of data collection and treatment. An efficient alternative for urban traffic management consists of Urban Traffic Control (UTC) systems, which also collect, model and store data relating to traffic conditions. Usually, however, these systems do not offer effective mechanisms for consulting their databases, as they have an emphasis on signal programming. This work presents a logical interface, named TRANSCOOT, between the dynamic database of Fortaleza’s UTC system (CTAFOR) and the TransCAD GIS. This interface combines an modular architecture and a spatial-temporal version model to import dynamic traffic data into the static GIS platform, in an efficient and flexible way. Within the GIS environment, this interface aggregates spatial attributes to the imported data, what makes it possible to implement spatial analyses of the urban traffic in the CTAFOR area.