Implementation of a Real-Time Intersection Accident Detection System (Phase 1)

Details

• Creators:
  Zhang, Yunlong ; Hu, Rose Qingyang ; Xie, Yuanchang
• Corporate Creators:
  Mississippi State University
• Corporate Contributors:
  Mississippi Transportation Research Center ; Mississippi. Dept. of Transportation ; United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Automatic incident detection
  • Incident detection
  • Traffic surveillance
  • Traffic safety
  • Traffic crashes
  • Traffic accidents--Mississippi
  • Traffic safety--Mississippi
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA/MS-DOT-RD-04-164 ; MS-DOT-RD-04-164
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Mississippi
• Edition:
  Final report.
• Corporate Publisher:
  Mississippi. Dept. of Transportation
• Abstract:
  The focus of this research is the feasibility study for the implementation of a real-time accident detection system at intersections. After reviewing accident detection algorithms investigated in the prior phase of the research, we explored schemes to improve the algorithm, conducted algorithm tests both in the lab and in the field, investigated system architecture and communications mechanisms, and evaluated the feasibility of implementation. Based on the original optimal algorithm with Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) feature extraction method identified from the previous project, two algorithm refinement schemes, a lifting scheme and an overlapping scheme, were investigated. Lab and field test results consistently show that the overlapping scheme has a higher detection rate than the original optimal algorithm, and the lifting scheme has the advantage only in computation time. The feasibility of system implementation was investigated from several perspectives including detection rate, computation time of the algorithm, and communications design. Based on the results of the study, a real-time system implementation scheme was recommended.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/24150/dot_24150_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 397.40 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4d2ee63a5c7c2b151dc54b20482de3ca6851b1892e14b8ee43616806023ef13e0dd3be4fddb2b81a9740ec0e2f8d83a9c809e43dee3a624869a86d177e0d1415