Authors: Nan Zou and Jianwei Wang
Conference: Application of Advanced Technology in Transportation (AATT), Chicago, IL
Date: August 13-16, 2006
Abstract:
This paper presents a video-based method for evaluating and validating volume and speed data collected with traffic detectors. Assessing the detector data reliability is a critical task for all Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Their performance will be significantly impacted by the data quality. Most existing studies mainly use volume as the only variable for evaluating the detector quality. A cost-efficient and rigorous method that can concurrently evaluate both volume and speed from the detectors is not available yet. The video-based method presented in this study is both cost-efficient and sufficiently reliable for evaluating detector data for ITS system operations. For example, the performance of a travel time prediction system is very sensitive to the quality of the detector data. This paper will mainly detail the key features of the proposed system and its application in a case study of RTMS detector data on I-70 corridor in Maryland.
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