System and analytics for continuously assessing transport systems from sparse and noisy observations: Case study in Dublin

Author

Gasparini, L. ; Bouillet, E. ; Calabrese, F. ; Verscheure, O. ; O´Brien, Brendan ; O´Donnell, Maggie

Author_Institution

IBM Dublin Res. Lab., Dublin, Ireland

fYear

2011

fDate

5-7 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

1827

Lastpage

1832

Abstract

This paper describes our implementation of an Intelligent Transportation System, built for the road administration authority at Dublin City Council. The system is able to ingest data from different sources, while providing updated speed and traffic flow measurements, travel time estimates and statistical aggregations of current traffic conditions in real-time to the user. The application is powered by IBM Infosphere Streams, which enables it to easily scale to hundreds of thousands of data points processed per second, while maintaining sub-second delay from data acquisition to delivery. In this work we provide an overview of the analytics and the application architecture used to deliver the required capabilities.

Keywords

automated highways; data acquisition; statistical analysis; Dublin; IBM infosphere streams; data acquisition; intelligent transportation system; road administration authority; speed measurements; statistical aggregation; traffic flow measurements; travel time estimates; Cities and towns; Global Positioning System; Monitoring; Real time systems; Roads; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2011 14th International IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

ISSN

2153-0009

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2198-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITSC.2011.6082982

Filename

6082982