Highway features

Review by Traffic and Safety Engineers Design Practices for Key Highway Features... 

The topics addressed in paragraph 7, "Design Practices for Key Highway Features," include 10 of the 13 controlling criteria as they relate to RRR. 

Design decisions for particuiar highway features should be based on conditions that reflect the anticipated service life of the feature even though the expected performance period of the pavement rehabilitation work may be much less than the performance period for geometric improvements. 

Microprocessor technology permitted these technical issues to be addressed in a cost-effec tive manner. In the mid-1970s, a process control architecture referred to as a distributed control system (DCS) was introduced and almost instantly became a commercial success. A DCS consists of some number of microprocessor-based nodes that are interconnec ted by a digital communications network, often called a data highway. The key features of this architecture are as follows ... 

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An important feature of the distributed control system chosen is that the PCMs can communicate over a microwave link, thus allowing the well pad manifold modules to be included in the GC control system the hardwire data highway is limited to a distance of 5000 ft. (1524m) from the Host. The well chokes and manifold controls will remain on the SCAOA system, but the well pad will require continuous process control of the test separator, water injection flow control, and artificial lift gas flow control. 

Guidebook to Permafrost and Related Features along the Elliott and Dalton Highways, Fox to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska (4th Int. Conf. on Permafrost, July 18-22, 1983, University of Alaska, Fairbanks) Brown, J. Kreig, R. A., Eds. State of Alaska Juneau, AK, 1983 p 230. 

If the DCCS is required to replace an existing control system (i.e. if the plant is being retrofitted) then the microcontrollers will normally be located in the central control room (CCR). In this case, the distribution features of the DCCS will not be fully utilised and the significance of the digital data highway (DH) will also be reduced. 

Communication within a DCCS is implemented by means of the system bus or data highway along which data are exchanged between elements of the system at the same or at different hierarchical levels. The bus represents the basic system interface and should provide the following features 50 ... 

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