Automatic Counting of Pedestrians and Cyclists.

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• Creators:
  Pires, Bernardo R. ; Gong, Jian ; Kaffine, Chris ; Kocamaz, Mehmet Kemal ; Nunnagoppula, Ganesh Kumar ; Kozar, John
• Corporate Creators:
  Carnegie-Mellon University ; University of Pennsylvania
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. University Transportation Centers (UTC) Program
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Pedestrian counts
  • Cyclists
  • Automatic data collection systems
  • Data collection
  • Traffic counts
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  University Transportation Centers Program (U.S.)
• Abstract:
  On September 2014, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx ; unveiled a new Transportation Action Plan 1 to increase active, no-motorized ; transportation. On it, the Department of Transportation reinforced its commitment ; to “making safe walking and biking a reality.” Although the health and ; environmental benefits of a non-automobile commute are well known, it is still ; difficult to understand how to get more people to take up active transportation. ; Infrastructure can have a dramatic effect on cycling and waling adoption, but ; represents a significant outlay of government resources. Thus, concrete usage ; statistics are paramount for assessing and optimizing such spending. The goal of ; this project is to provide actionable data for government officials and advocates ; that promote bicycling and walking. The project created a vision-based cyclist and ; pedestrian counting system that allow for automatic and human-assisted data ; collection and analysis. Unlike traditional non-vision counting methods, our system ; has the potential for much higher accuracy while providing valuable usage and ; demographic data that simply cannot be collected by other sensors
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  Contract No. DTRT12GUTG11
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/31309/dot_31309_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 4.21 MB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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