Feasibility of Bluetooth Data as a Surrogate Measure of Vehicle Operations

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• Creators:
  Rescot, Robert A. ; Schrock,Steven D. ; Fitzsimmons, Eric J.
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Kansas
• Corporate Contributors:
  Kansas. Dept. of Transportation. Bureau of Materials & Research
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Bluetooth technology
  • Wireless communication systems
  • Communication systems
  • Origin and destination
  • Roundabouts
  • Generators
  • Tracking systems
  • Trucking
  • Bluetooth vehicle data collection
  • Origin-destination trips
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• Publication/ Report Number:
  KS-12-7
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Kansas
• Edition:
  Final report; July 2009¿June 2012.
• Corporate Publisher:
  Kansas. Dept. of Transportation
• Abstract:
  This research was designed as proof-of-concept study to investigate how Bluetooth data loggers can be used to collect vehicle ; operational data over traditional vehicle counting methods. The reliability test included mapping areas for five antenna options and ; their detection reliabilities were investigated. Other tests were conducted to assess the impacts of roadside antenna placement, ; vehicular speeds and in-vehicle source placement. The feasibility of using data from Bluetooth enabled devices in vehicles as a ; surrogate for traditional traffic engineering data were investigated for several types of traffic studies. These studies included, urban ; corridor travel time monitoring, freeway travel time monitoring, origin-destination studies, estimating turning movements at ; roundabouts, and truck tracking across the state of Kansas. Each of these studies demonstrated how the same technology could be ; applied to different study objectives. While this technology was found to have enormous potential to collect vehicle operational ; data, it was not found to be completely stand-alone. An identified weakness of the technology was that it was found to sample ; around 5 percent of the available traffic. The implication of this was that Bluetooth data were not always available for analysis due ; to low traffic volumes at some rural locations.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  C1825
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/25110/dot_25110_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 4.73 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:aff832fcf7be9175a6dfafb8c60c6a17cff544a9922bc1a0dfadb5cac148b4e6