Feasibility study for using video detection system data to supplement automatic traffic recorder data.

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• Creators:
  Guin, Angshuman ; Hunter, Michael ; Suh, Wonho ; Anderson, James
• Corporate Creators:
  Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Video imaging detectors
  • Traffic surveillance
  • Traffic volume
  • Traffic data
  • Remote sensing
  • Data collection
  • Accuracy
  • Feasibility analysis
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA-GA-15-1113
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  Georgia. Department of Transportation. Office of Research
• Abstract:
  The objective of this study was to determine the feasibility of incorporating Georgia NaviGAtor ; traffic volume data with Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) traffic volume data to ; enhance federal reporting. Some of the pertinent conclusions from this study are: ; 1. Accuracy of video detection system (VDS) counts varied from site to site and lane to lane. ; 2. Accuracy for VDS with gantry-mounted cameras was not significantly better than that of ; pole-mounted VDS sites. ; 3. Accuracy of VDS sites with cameras mounted on 36 ft. offset poles was marginally lower ; than units with cameras mounted on 24 ft. offset poles. ; 4. Accuracy of counts from VDSs and remote traffic microwave sensors (RTMSs) is sensitive to site-specific deployment characteristics. ; 5. There is a likely limit to the number of lanes that may be accurately counted by a single ; VDS unit. ; 6. Counts aggregated over all lanes provide the highest accuracy. ; 7. Given the variability in data quality across detection stations, the use of VDS data to supplement GDOT data should be considered on a detector-by-detector basis (i.e. the data ; from a detector need to be individually checked for quality against ground truth data before they are used for federal reporting purposes).
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  0010406
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/29714/dot_29714_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.55 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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