Sayaka Nishimoto, T. Yamazato, Hiraku Okada, T. Fujii, T. Yendo, Shintaro Arai
{"title":"Overlay coding for road-to-vehicle visible light communication using LED array and high-speed camera","authors":"Sayaka Nishimoto, T. Yamazato, Hiraku Okada, T. Fujii, T. Yendo, Shintaro Arai","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOMW.2012.6477757","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOMW.2012.6477757","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to improve the visible light communication system using LED array and high-speed camera by proposing what we call “overlay coding”. “Overlay coding” is a new coding method to realize a hierarchical coding, through which a high-priority data can be received even if the receiver is far from a transmitter. Conventionally, the hierarchical coding has been realized through the wavelet transform that has a limitation of number and disposition of LEDs, and as a result it does not always match with the design of the transmitters (e.g. traffic lights, etc.) used in real life. To solve the limitation problem, we propose a more flexible way of designing the application of LEDs depending on the transmitters. In particular, overlay coding is realized through the procedures of coding and decoding. In coding, we replace one LED with a flexible number of LEDs, and the number depends on whether the data is high-priority or low-priority, then high-priority data and low-priority data are overlaid (section III-B1). In decoding, we first obtain the high-priority data, and then the low-priority data using retrieved high-priority data (section III-B2). The experimental result shows that the distance for receiving error-free data is extended from 30m to 70m in the overlay coding (section IV-B).","PeriodicalId":186596,"journal":{"name":"2011 14th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129902647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Real-time implementation of a novel safety function for prevention of loss of vehicle control","authors":"Mohammad Ali, C. Olsson, J. Sjöberg","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2011.6083082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2011.6083082","url":null,"abstract":"We present a novel safety function for prevention of vehicle control loss. The safety function overcomes some of the limitations of conventional Electronic Stability Control (ESC) systems. Based on sensor information about the host vehicle's state and the road ahead, a threat assessment algorithm predicts the future evolution of the vehicle's state. If the vehicle motion, predicted over a finite time horizon violates safety constraints, autonomous deceleration is activated in order to prevent vehicle loss of control. The safety function has been implemented in real-time. Experimental results indicate that the safety function relies less on the driver's skills than conventional ESC systems and that a more controllable and comfortable vehicle motion can be acquired when the function is active.","PeriodicalId":186596,"journal":{"name":"2011 14th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116897346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Raymond Ghandour, Felipe H. R. da Cunha, A. Victorino, A. Charara, D. Lechner
{"title":"A method of vehicle dynamics prediction to anticipate the risk of future accidents: Experimental validation","authors":"Raymond Ghandour, Felipe H. R. da Cunha, A. Victorino, A. Charara, D. Lechner","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2011.6082888","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2011.6082888","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents a prediction algorithm for vehicle dynamics parameters, to expect possible risk situations in future instants. The methodology consists in adopting assumptions about the trajectory, velocity, and acceleration in future instants and use these assumptions, allied to previous road information to calculate the future tire/road lateral and vertical efforts and side slip angle using a state observer. Once calculated, the risk indicators: the lateral load transfer (LTR) and the lateral skid indicator (LSI), based on these efforts could be predicted in order to expect and avoid possible dangerous situations. Experimental validations are shown using our laboratory vehicle in a real situations.","PeriodicalId":186596,"journal":{"name":"2011 14th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)","volume":"119 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120873032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Argote, Eleni Christofa, Yiguang Xuan, A. Skabardonis
{"title":"Estimation of measures of effectiveness based on Connected Vehicle data","authors":"J. Argote, Eleni Christofa, Yiguang Xuan, A. Skabardonis","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2011.6083020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2011.6083020","url":null,"abstract":"Vehicle-infrastructure cooperation via the Connected Vehicle initiative is a promising mobile data source for improving real-time traffic management applications such as adaptive signal control. This paper focuses on developing estimation methods with the use of Connected Vehicle data for several measures of effectiveness (e.g., queue length, average speed, number of stops), essential for determining traffic conditions on urban signalized arterials for real-time applications. This research systematically determines minimum penetration rates that allow accurate estimates for a wide range of measures of effectiveness in undersaturated traffic conditions. The estimation of these measures and minimum penetration requirements has been tested using Next Generation Simulation (NGSIM) data.","PeriodicalId":186596,"journal":{"name":"2011 14th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121257850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Figuera, J. Lillo, I. Mora-Jiménez, J. Rojo-álvarez, A. Caamaño
{"title":"Multivariate spatial clustering of traffic accidents for local profiling of risk factors","authors":"C. Figuera, J. Lillo, I. Mora-Jiménez, J. Rojo-álvarez, A. Caamaño","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2011.6082946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2011.6082946","url":null,"abstract":"According to previous studies, traffic accident data have a spatial dependence which should be taken into account when analyzed. For this purpose, a proper spatial segmentation of accidents should be carried out so that subsequent spatial analysis can provide significant results. In this work, we propose a method for spatial clustering of multiple variables in order to make a new spatial characterization of the different road stretches and then to assign them into a small set of typical accidents according to their risk profile. First, every road is segmented according to an estimation of the corresponding spatial accident density. Then, each segment is characterized with a numerical vector representing accident attributes. The spatial clustering is performed in the third stage by applying a k-means clustering algorithm. Traffic accident data from Comunidad Valenciana, in Spain, have been used for testing our method. Results show that our approach is a flexible and intuitive way for spatially characterizing the roads of the region under study, and even for finding relationships between values of the analyzed risk factors.","PeriodicalId":186596,"journal":{"name":"2011 14th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115540127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kernel-based modeling and optimization for density estimation in transportation systems using floating car data","authors":"Arash Tabibiazar, O. Basir","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2011.6083098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2011.6083098","url":null,"abstract":"Traffic congestion is one of major problems in numerous cities especially in urban areas. An appropriate solution comes from the modeling of traffic data and understanding the congestion characteristics. Various methods were developed to solve this problem, however, still necessary to develop new approaches. In this paper, a kernel-based density estimation method is utilized to extract the congestion spots in urban areas based on collected position samples with time-stamp from floating car data. A probabilistic framework is developed to model the traffic data with generalized Gaussian density and then to find optimized weights of kernels in an approximation function, centered at points-of-interest by minimizing the Cramer-von Mises distance between localized cumulative distributions of mixture of Dirac distributions of position samples and Gaussian mixtures of points-of-interest in a pre-defined time window. The approximation density function by optimized kernels' weights can be used to estimate the mobile vehicles density in a specific time and space. Modeling the traffic data to extract the required parameters improves the performance significantly. The proposed method is applied to real measurements and can be implemented in real time in traffic management systems.","PeriodicalId":186596,"journal":{"name":"2011 14th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116039113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Real-time freeway traffic state prediction: A particle filter approach","authors":"Hao Chen, H. Rakha, Shereef Sadek","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2011.6082873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2011.6082873","url":null,"abstract":"The research presented in this paper develops a multi-step traffic state prediction algorithm using spot speed measurements. The traditional Lighthill-Whitham-Richards (LWR) flow continuity equation is combined with the Van Aerde traffic stream model to generate a new partial differential equation (PDE) named the Van Aerde flow continuity model. The numerical solution of the PDE is obtained using the Godunov discretization scheme to generate a time series equation that characterizes the temporal and spatial relationship of traffic speed data. Because of the strong nonlinearity of the discretized speed update equation, a robust particle filter is applied to conduct a muti-step speed prediction using speed measurements. The prediction accuracy of the proposed approach is compared to the state-of-the-art Ensemble Kalman filter with the Greenshields traffic stream model using simulated loop detector data from Interstate 66. The results demonstrate that the proposed particle filter approach in combination with the discretized Van Aerde flow continuity model produces the lowest prediction error of 4.3 km/h for a five-minute prediction horizon, and accurately predicts the spatial and temporal propagation of shockwaves.","PeriodicalId":186596,"journal":{"name":"2011 14th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116559292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A maritime ITS architecture for e-Navigation and e-Maritime: Supporting environment friendly ship transport","authors":"Ø. Rødseth","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2011.6082963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2011.6082963","url":null,"abstract":"Ship transport can be said to be the original Intelligent Transport System and developments in this sector should be of interest for ITS research in other modes. This paper will investigate the requirements to a Maritime ITS architecture and describe elements of a possible solution. A driving force behind this architecture is the international nature of ship transport and the need to establish standards for information exchanges to further increase efficiency, reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and improve the security in the sector. Obviously, reduction of GHG emissions through operational measures can also reduce costs. This has been realized by the shipping community and the e-Navigation (by International Maritime Organization — IMO) and e-Maritime (by European Union — EU) initiatives testify to this. Both initiatives have identified the information architecture as critical for the future development of the ship transport area. The development of a maritime ITS architecture needs to consider legacy systems, the international nature of shipping, international legislation and standards as well as highly varying quality of service on available communication channels.","PeriodicalId":186596,"journal":{"name":"2011 14th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122637392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of network-level traffic states using locality preservative non-negative matrix factorization","authors":"Yufei Han, F. Moutarde","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2011.6083060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2011.6083060","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose to perform clustering and temporal prediction on network-level traffic states of large-scale traffic networks. Rather than analyzing dynamics of traffic states on individual links, we study overall spatial configurations of traffic states in the whole network and temporal dynamics of global traffic states. With our analysis, we can not only find out typical spatial patterns of global traffic states in daily traffic scenes, but also acquire long-term general predictions of the spatial patterns, which could be used as prior knowledge for modeling temporal behaviors of traffic flows. For this purpose, we use a locality preservation constraints based non-negative matrix factorization (LPNMF) to obtain a low-dimensional representation of network-level traffic states. Clustering and temporal prediction are then performed on the proposed compact representation. Experiments on realistic simulated traffic data are provided to check and illustrate the validity of our proposed approach.","PeriodicalId":186596,"journal":{"name":"2011 14th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122984294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Relevance estimation of traffic elements using Markov logic networks","authors":"Dennis Nienhüser, T. Gumpp, Johann Marius Zöllner","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2011.6082903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2011.6082903","url":null,"abstract":"Complex traffic situations e.g. at intersections consist of many traffic participants, traffic elements and relations between them. The behavior of participants is constrained by implicit and explicit traffic rules. We are interested in estimating whether a given traffic element — a traffic sign, a traffic light — is relevant in the current driving situation, i.e. affects the set of possible legal actions. A wide variety of properties influences the relevance. The route to take for example affects which traffic lights are relevant and the current weather situation affects whether a speed limit restricted by a supplementary sign is in effect. We use first-order logic to model such relations and apply reasoning to decide upon the relevance of static traffic elements. The need for perfect information is alleviated with the help of Markov logic networks, reconciling hard decision rules on the one hand and uncertainty intrinsic to the environment perception process on the other hand. The evaluation of twelve intersection scenes shows very promising results for the relevance estimation of traffic lights: Markov logic networks are able to judge whether enough information is available and determine the relevant traffic lights reliably in such cases.","PeriodicalId":186596,"journal":{"name":"2011 14th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114398857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}