Estimating travel times and vehicle trajectories on freeways using dual loop detectors

Estimating travel times and vehicle trajectories on freeways using dual loop detectors

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Article ID: iaor2003595
Country: United Kingdom
Volume: 36A
Issue: 4
Start Page Number: 351
End Page Number: 364
Publication Date: May 2002
Journal: Transportation Research. Part A, Policy and Practice
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Keywords: measurement
Abstract:

Recent research has investigated various means of measuring link travel times on freeways. This search has been motivated in part by the fact that travel time is considered to be more informative to users than local velocity measurements at a detector station. But direct travel time measurement requires the correlation of vehicle observations at multiple locations, which in turn requires new communications infrastructure and/or new detector hardware. This paper presents a method for estimating link travel time using data from an individual dual loop detector, without requiring any new hardware. The estimation technique exploits basic traffic flow theory to extrapolate local conditions to an extended link. In the process of estimating travel times, the algorithm also estimates vehicle trajectories. The work demonstrates that the travel time estimates are very good provided there are no sources of delay, such as an incident, within a link.

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