By March 2006, the [[Highways Agency]] aims to have MIDAS installed on more than 910km of the English motorway network.
==COMPASS System==
Incident Detection algorithms have also been widely used throughout the '''COMPASS'''-enabled area of Southern Ontario, Canada. [http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/traveller/compass/ COMPASS] is the [[Freeway Traffic Management System]] (FTMS) run by the [http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/ Ontario Ministry of Transportation]. Detectors are typically located as double-loop detectors embedded in the pavement every 500m along the province's major expressways. COMPASS-enabled highways include [[Highway 401 (Ontario)|Highway 401]] (one of the highest-volume highways in the world), as well as the [[Queen Elizabeth Way]] (or QEW), and [[Highway 417 (Ontario)|Highway 417]] (the Queensway) in Ottawa.
The primary algorithm used by the Ministry is known as the '''McMaster''' algorithm, designed by Professor Fred Hall of [[McMaster University]], in Hamilton, Ontario.
Research on new algorithm developments and evaluations is performed at the [http://www.civil.engineering.utoronto.ca/English/ITS.html ITS Centre and Testbed] (ICAT), at the Civil Engineering department of the [[University of Toronto]]. The ICAT is equipped with direct fibre-optic links to the Ministry of Transportation, and received both traffic camera and loop detector data on a live basis. Visual data can be used to confirm the presence of incidents detected by the various algorithms.
