Automated pedestrian counter : final report, February 2010.

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• Creators:
  Ozbay, Kaan ; Bartin, Bekir ; Yang, Hong ; Walla, Ranjit ; Williams, Robert
• Corporate Creators:
  Rutgers University
• Corporate Contributors:
  New Jersey Department of Transportation ; United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Counts, Infrared Sensor, Thermal Sensor Heat Radiation Automatic Pedestrian Counter, Pedestrian Infrared Detectors Pedestrian Counts Sensors
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA-NJ-2010-001
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  New Jersey
• Corporate Publisher:
  New Jersey. Dept. of Transportation
• Abstract:
  Emerging sensor technologies accelerated the shift toward automatic pedestrian counting methods to
  
  acquire reliable long-term data for transportation design, planning, and safety studies. Although a
  
  number of commercial pedestrian sensors are available, their accuracy under different pedestrian
  
  traffic flow conditions is still questionable. Moreover, it is difficult to assess the suitability of different
  
  sensors for different locations. Some sensors claimed to be more accurate are substantially more
  
  expensive. Ease of deployment, power requirements, and long-term deployment issues all play an
  
  important role in the selection of sensors. This study attempts to shed light on the understanding of
  
  field performance of two commercially available automatic pedestrian sensors by performing rigorous
  
  comparisons—namely, a passive infrared counter by EcoCounter and a thermal sensor by TrafSys. A
  
  major innovation of this study was to simultaneously deploy the two relatively different sensor
  
  technologies—thermal and infrared sensors—under the same experimental conditions to compare
  
  their performances. To achieve this in a statistically robust manner, pairwise tests were conducted at
  
  trails and intersections with different pedestrian flow levels and characteristics. Statistically significant
  
  differences in terms of accuracy were found. The thermal sensor was found to produce less error
  
  than EcoCounter, which significantly undercounted pedestrians at intersections. This result was
  
  expected since EcoCounter is recommended for trail settings. The results also demonstrated the
  
  variability of both sensors given different deployment conditions. A calibration procedure for the
  
  EcoCounter data was also presented.
  
  
• Format:
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• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
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