Estimating Road Traffic Congestion using Vehicle Velocity

This study investigates an alternative way to estimate degrees of road traffic congestion based on routine GPS measurements from main roads in urban areas of Bangkok, Thailand. We classify three levels of traffic congestion according to the weighted exponential moving averages of measured GPS speed....

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Published in2006 6th International Conference on ITS Telecommunications pp. 1001 - 1004
Main Authors Pattara-atikom, W., Pongpaibool, P., Thajchayapong, S.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.06.2006
Subjects
Cameras
Global Positioning System
Road vehicles
Telecommunication congestion control
Telecommunication traffic
Traffic control
Transportation
Urban areas
Velocity measurement
Voice mail
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Summary:This study investigates an alternative way to estimate degrees of road traffic congestion based on routine GPS measurements from main roads in urban areas of Bangkok, Thailand. We classify three levels of traffic congestion according to the weighted exponential moving averages of measured GPS speed. Human perception is used to obtain classification thresholds and evaluated the performance of the proposed method. The benefits of our proposed method over existing techniques is that it is simple, easy to understand, and compatible with existing traffic report systems in Bangkok
ISBN:0780395867
9780780395862
DOI:10.1109/ITST.2006.288722