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Live Data Acquisition for Situation Awareness in Traffic Management Systems Using Laser Sensors

Authors:
Armin Veichtlbauer
Peter Dorfinger
Ulrich Schrittesser

Keywords: Situation Awareness, Sensor Data Acquisition, Vehicle Counting, Traffic Management

Abstract:
Traffic management systems help to organise the more and more dense traffic in cities. However, the classic approach for such systems is the use of traffic models, which incorporate a long-term knowledge of traffic situations in the respective city. This approach is not adequate for reacting to changes in traffic, either long-term changes, which have not been trained to the model, or short-term changes due to unexpected events. In this paper, we describe how we collect real-time traffic data using a laser scanner, evaluate the precision of the traffic measurements and assess the circumstances under which the results are useable for a professional traffic management system.

Pages: 268 to 273

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: August 21, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4405

ISBN: 978-1-61208-144-1

Location: Nice/Saint Laurent du Var, France

Dates: from August 21, 2011 to August 27, 2011