Epic - PeMS Roadmap

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Epic Information - PeMS Roadmap

Summary

We will dig into some PeMS data (Caltrans Performance Measurement System) in the latter half of 2024. This epic will capture any research questions, analysis data products, etc related to using this new data source.

Issues

• 1. Managed lanes vs general purpose lane traffic volume, flow rate (vehicles or people throughput), and speed?
  • PeMS Data Request - HOT/HOV vs General Purpose vehicle flows and speeds on highway lane-segments with HOT/HOV lane #1152
  • Research Request - create highway-lane-hour flows, occupancy, speeds aggregation #1177
  • Research Request - PeMS lane dataset + postmiles geospatial data #1210
• 2. Olympic Lanes concept for LA County freeways (this and previous issue are closely related)
  • PeMS Data Request - LA County lane traffic volume #1153
• 3. Ask Traffic Ops for S3 permissions to use parquets in S3 bucket and pilot a published dataset
• 4. Research Request - Map PeMS data #1233 Put PeMS station metrics (speed, volumes) on a map