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ITS Sensors and Architectures for Traffic Management and Connected Vehicles


ITS Sensors and Architectures for Traffic Management and Connected Vehicles

Paperback by Klein, Lawrence A. (Consultant, USA)

ITS Sensors and Architectures for Traffic Management and Connected Vehicles

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ISBN:
9781138747371
Publication Date:
18 Aug 2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:
CRC Press
Pages:
542 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 29 Apr - 1 May 2024
ITS Sensors and Architectures for Traffic Management and Connected Vehicles

Description

An intelligent transportation system (ITS) offers considerable opportunities for increasing the safety, efficiency, and predictability of traffic flow and reducing vehicle emissions. Sensors (or detectors) enable the effective gathering of arterial and controlled-access highway information in support of automatic incident detection, active transportation and demand management, traffic-adaptive signal control, and ramp and freeway metering and dispatching of emergency response providers. As traffic flow sensors are integrated with big data sources such as connected and cooperative vehicles, and cell phones and other Bluetooth-enabled devices, more accurate and timely traffic flow information can be obtained. The book examines the roles of traffic management centers that serve cities, counties, and other regions, and the collocation issues that ensue when multiple agencies share the same space. It describes sensor applications and data requirements for several ITS strategies; sensor technologies; sensor installation, initialization, and field-testing procedures; and alternate sources of traffic flow data. The book addresses concerns related to the introduction of automated and connected vehicles, and the benefits that systems engineering and national ITS architectures in the US, Europe, Japan, and elsewhere bring to ITS. Sensor and data fusion benefits to traffic management are described, while the Bayesian and Dempster-Shafer approaches to data fusion are discussed in more detail. ITS Sensors and Architectures for Traffic Management and Connected Vehicles suits the needs of personnel in transportation institutes and highway agencies, and students in undergraduate or graduate transportation engineering courses.

Contents

1 Introduction 2 Freeway traffic management centers 3 Sensor applications to ITS 4 Sensor data requirements 5 Modern traffic flow sensor technologies 6 Inductive loop installation and loop system sensitivity 7 Overhead sensor installation and initialization 8 Sensor field tests 9 Sensor specification and testing tools 10 Alternative sources of navigation and traffic flow data 11 Automated vehicles 12 Connected vehicles 13 Systems engineering process 14 National ITS architectures 15 Connected vehicle architectures and applications 16 Sensor and data fusion in traffic management 17 Bayesian inference and Dempster-Shafer evidential reasoning and their application to traffic management

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