Microscopic Traffic Data Collection by Remote Sensing
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To gain insight into the behavior of drivers during congestion, and to develop and test theories and models that describe congested driving behavior, very detailed data are needed. A new data-collection system prototype is described for determining individual vehicle trajectories from sequences of digital aerial images. Software was developed to detect and track vehicles from image sequences. In addition to longitudinal and lateral position as a function of time, the system can determine vehicle length and width. Before vehicle detection and tracking can be achieved, the software handles correction for lens distortion, radiometric correction, and orthorectification of the image. The software was tested on data collected from a helicopter by a digital camera that gathered high-resolution monochrome images, covering 280 m of a Dutch motorway. From the test, it was concluded that the techniques for analyzing the digital images can be applied automatically without much problem. However, given the limited stability of the helicopter, only 210 m of the motorway could be used for vehicle detection and tracking. The resolution of the data collection was 22 cm. Weather conditions appear to have a significant influence on the reliability of the data: 98% of the vehicles could be detected and tracked automatically when conditions were good; this number dropped to 90% when the weather conditions worsened. Equipment for stabilizing the camera—gyroscopic mounting—and the use of color images can be applied to further improve the system.
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