Woodward Developing Fact Sheets Summarizing Exploratory Advanced Research Projects
Woodward is developing a series of fact sheets to explain the details of new projects underway in the Exploratory Advanced Research (EAR) Program.
The fact sheets underway this month deal with tackling freight congestion on US highways, and methods to prevent federal fuel tax evasion.
With the volume of freight moved in the United States more than tripling over the past 25 years, “Advanced Integration of Private Sector Freight Information with Public Sector Traffic Information to Reduce Metropolitan Congestion,” is a Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) EAR Program study aiming to reduce freight and general traffic congestion. Awarded to Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) by the FHWA, the primary goal of this project is to produce a system design and architecture document that will provide the basis for a future deployment of the existing Cross-Town Improvement Project (C-TIP) Freight Congestion Mitigation System. C-TIP is developing freight information systems that can share transportation, logistics, and trade information between public and private sectors. The program is also developing architecture to allow trucking companies in the Greater Kansas City region to plan trips using real-time traffic and congestion information.
Another featured project aims to tackle some of the estimated $1 billion in lost revenue due to fuel tax evasion. “Supply Chain-Based Solution to Prevent Fuel Tax Evasion,” is an EAR Program study conducted in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. This study aims to monitor every loading, offloading, and movement of petroleum products, and provide enforcement staff with intelligence on a potential diversion of fuel while it is happening or even before it takes place. The development of such a detection system has the potential to reduce or even eliminate a number of fuel tax evasion schemes, resulting in millions of dollars of additional revenue in the Highway Trust Fund.
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