Motorway Incident Detection and Automatic Signalling
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Motorway Incident Detection and Automatic Signalling
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Motorway Incident Detection and Automatic Signalling, usually abbreviated to MIDAS, is a UK distributed network of traffic sensors, mainly inductive loops, which are designed to alert the local regional control centre (RCC) to traffic flow and average speeds, and set variable message signs and advisory speed limits with little human intervention. Companies such as RAC, TomTom and Google use this traffic flow data via halogens reporting systems. Originally installed on the congested western stret
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Road traffic sensor
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorway_Incident_Detection_and_Automatic_Signalling
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2024-04-22T23:40:20Z
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