An experimental station for real-time traffic monitoring on a urban road

Several researches have been conducted on real-time traffic monitoring topic and relevant applications in the same field have been developed in the last years. Interesting results have been obtained from the integrated utilization of different technologies (traffic monitoring tools, information transmission systems, etc.). The paper reports on a research activity in progress concerning the implementation of an integrated system for real-time traffic monitoring, through video sensors and inductive loops, and their real-time transmission from a survey station to a remote operational lab. The survey station has been implemented in an urban road of Reggio Calabria (Italy), where a high number of buses and private vehicles interact with pedestrian flow. The first results concern the system test and evaluation in order to develop a reliable survey system-prototype for urban roads; the acquisition of an extended data-base for different traffic and environmental conditions.