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:
  • Pedestrian counts
  • Sensors
  • Infrared detectors
  • Heat radiation Automatic Pedestrian Counter, Pedestrian
  • Counts, Infrared Sensor, Thermal Sensor
• 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.
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• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/17680/dot_17680_DS1.pdf
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• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
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