Room Reservation
The Intelligent Transportation Systems Lab (ITS Lab) is available for reservations. The lab is scheduled on a first come-first served basis. We reserve the right to change a room reservation based on occupancy.
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About the Lab
The Traffic Management Center (TMC) is housed in the Nebraska Transportation Center's Intelligent Transportation System’s (ITS) Laboratory. The room rectangular in shape with approximate dimensions of 20'x50' of useable space for the workstations. The TMC includes an adjacent room has been configured to serve as the TMC Equipment Room.
The TMC and TMC Equipment Room have raised floors which include an under-floor cable management system that includes cable trays, floor boxes with connections for power and network, and power and data cables that include slack cable. The cable management system is installed under the raised floor in both the TMC and the TMC Equipment Room.
The layout of the TMC includes the following elements:
- Flat panel video wall composed of three rows of four LED/LCDs installed on the wall separating the TMC and the TMC Equipment Room. The video wall has low-profile bezel monitors to minimize the visibility of lines between the monitors. The monitors are sized to meet the available space on the video wall and user requirements of the TMC. The video wall includes a digital matrix switch to allow for multiple configurations of displays.
- Three fixed TMC workstations are positioned in front of the video wall and next to the column closest to the TMC entrance ramp. These fixed TMC workstations extend to the hallway entrance to Room 2051A.
- Movable TMC workstations are positioned behind the fixed TMC workstations. Three rows of two moveable workstations are positioned approximately 5’, 10’, and 15’ behind the TMC fixed workstations.
- The Equipment Room utilizes six communication racks and cable trays. Additional TMC hardware equipment, including servers, video matrix switch, and other networking equipment identified as part of the TMC design, is housed in the Equipment Room. The incoming data is connected to the city networks through a high-speed fiber optic communications link. These connections are for data retrieval from test beds throughout the city, and this data is brought back and stored on our data collection servers. The current state-of-the-art servers, data histogram and data archival system consist of 40 terabytes of data storage with expansion capabilities of above 120 terabytes. These are backed up on a data server and/or a tape system. All data can be streamed, stored, or routed to the TMC workstations in the ITS Lab and played back and analyzed on individual workstations or played on the video wall.