Title :
Development of Expressway Exit Hazardous Traffic Incident Monitoring and Warning System and its Effectiveness
Author :
Xuri, Guan ; Jiahua, Wu
Author_Institution :
Key Lab. of Road & Traffic Eng. of the Minist. of Educ., Tongji Univ., Shanghai, China
Abstract :
Monitoring and warning the expressway exit incidents is an effective way to prevent expressway accidents. This paper deals with illegal changing lanes and illegal parking behavior as the major incidents that should be monitored. In this paper, we introduce a system that aims to reduce the chance of traffic delay and traffic conflict and has put it into practice to test its effectiveness. According to the results of the test, the system has proved to be an excellent tool that could obviously reduce the number of events towards accidents, and reduce the extent of harm.
Keywords :
alarm systems; traffic control; traffic engineering computing; expressway exit; illegal parking behavior; traffic conflict; traffic delay; traffic incident monitoring; warning system; Accidents; Alarm systems; Monitoring; Roads; Safety; Vehicles; Wireless communication; control; expressway; expressway exit region; hazardous traffic incident; warning;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Computation Technology and Automation (ICICTA), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shenzhen, Guangdong
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-289-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICICTA.2011.117