Evaluation of the TRANSCOM´s system for managing incidents and traffic (TRANSMIT)

Author

Niver, Edip ; Mouskos, Kyriacos C. ; Batz, Tom ; Dwye, Peter

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., New Jersey Inst. of Technol., Newark, NJ, USA

Volume

1

Issue

1

fYear

2000

fDate

3/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

15

Lastpage

31

Abstract

TRANSCOM´s system for managing incidents and traffic (TRANSMIT) is a traffic surveillance and incident detection system that is based on traffic probes equipped with the E-ZPass electronic toll collection tags. The evaluation has been carried out to assess its communication system performance, its incident detection capability, and the traffic-flow parameters estimation, and to identify its current and potential benefits. The TRANSMIT communication system exhibited excellent performance in terms of the transmission rates system wide. The TRANSMIT incident detection algorithm performed very favorably in comparison to the results of the best incident detection algorithms reported in the literature. The link travel time estimates were found to be within the 95% confidence interval. The system offers a unique opportunity for researchers to collect travel-time data in real time, and direct measurements of the space mean speed, as well as incident detection related data

Keywords

accidents; computerised monitoring; data acquisition; parameter estimation; road traffic; surveillance; traffic control; TRANSCOM; TRANSMIT; communication system; electronic toll collection; parameters estimation; road traffic; space mean speed; traffic incident detection system; traffic surveillance; traffic-flow; travel time estimation; vehicle probes; Bridges; Communication system traffic; Detection algorithms; Probes; Radar detection; Space exploration; Surveillance; Transportation; Urban areas; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1524-9050

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/6979.869018

Filename

869018