B. Vanholme, B. Lusetti, D. Gruyer, S. Glaser, S. Mammar
{"title":"Highly automated driving on highways: System implementation on PC and automotive ECUs","authors":"B. Vanholme, B. Lusetti, D. Gruyer, S. Glaser, S. Mammar","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2011.6083143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2011.6083143","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the implementation of a highly automated driving system on automotive Electronic Control Units (ECUs). It integrates a perception component, which uses the combination of high-level sensors to map the environment, a co-pilot, which finds an optimal trajectory in this environment and a control component, which guides the vehicle on this trajectory. The cooperation between human and automation is managed by the driving Mode Selection and arbitration Unit (MSU) and Human-Machine Interface (HMI) components. The co-pilot and control components have been implemented on AUTOSAR-based ECUs, the other components in the RTMaps environment on a standard PC. It has been first been tested on the simulation tool SiVIC and was then transferred to a physical vehicle on test track.","PeriodicalId":186596,"journal":{"name":"2011 14th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)","volume":"60 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":"126991926","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":"Modelling cooperative driving in congestion shockwaves on a freeway network","authors":"S. Calvert, T. V. D. Broek, M. Noort","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2011.6082837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2011.6082837","url":null,"abstract":"The development of advanced driver assistance technology continues to proceed rapidly. Cooperative systems based on wireless communication are a specific form of advanced driver assistance that is currently evolving rapidly. A drawback in the development of such systems is that options for large scale field-testing and — development of these automated systems are limited. Traffic simulation however offers widespread options for testing. In this paper the effects of cooperative driving using cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC) to influence congestion shockwaves are evaluated on a part of the Amsterdam freeway network. The effects of congestion shockwaves on a network scale can be different to uniform freeway sections due to interaction between varying traffic flows. The application of CACC to mitigate the negative effects of shockwaves on a network level are simulated and analysed in this research for varying levels of CACC penetration. The results are analysed on both a quantitative as well as qualitative level and give a deeper understanding into the possibilities of the mass application of CACC systems.","PeriodicalId":186596,"journal":{"name":"2011 14th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)","volume":"48 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":"128139476","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}
G. Dedes, D. Grejner-Brzezinska, D. Guenther, G. Heydinger, K. Mouskos, B. Park, C. Toth
{"title":"Integrated GNSS/INU, vehicle dynamics, and microscopic traffic flow simulator for automotive safety","authors":"G. Dedes, D. Grejner-Brzezinska, D. Guenther, G. Heydinger, K. Mouskos, B. Park, C. Toth","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2011.6082995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2011.6082995","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the development of a comprehensive integrated GNSS/INU simulator consisting of a microscopic traffic simulator based on VISSIM, a vehicle dynamics simulator based on CarSim, and a GNSS/INU simulator. The resulting GNSS/INU simulator provides an integrated design, test and evaluation platform for exploring new ideas, developing advanced concept designs and investigating the impact of existing and emerging Global Navigation Systems (GNSS) and Inertial Navigation Unit (INU) technologies on automotive safety at the vehicle and network levels. For the simulation of hazardous conditions VISSIM generates safety warning events based on surrogate safety indicators. The warning events are intercepted at the vehicle dynamics simulator CarSim which generates simulated `ground truth' trajectories based on VISSIM's generated control parameters. GNSS/INU errors are generated by a GNSS/INU simulator and added to the CarSim `ground truth' trajectories. The simulated GNSS/INU vehicle trajectories and the `ground truth' CarSim trajectories are processed through a “Driver-Vehicle Response” module for the estimation of individual vehicle crashes. These crashes are employed to train a Neural Network (NN) as a non-parametric network crash estimator. The trained NN and V2V/V2I simulators are employed to estimate the reduction of network crashes resulting from the use of GNSS/IMU sensors in the vehicles.","PeriodicalId":186596,"journal":{"name":"2011 14th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)","volume":"18 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":"132841324","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}
João G. P. Rodrigues, Ana Aguiar, F. Vieira, J. Barros, J. P. S. Cunha
{"title":"A mobile sensing architecture for massive urban scanning","authors":"João G. P. Rodrigues, Ana Aguiar, F. Vieira, J. Barros, J. P. S. Cunha","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2011.6082958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2011.6082958","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile Sensor Networks based on connected vehicles and smart phones are poised to become key enablers in the development of sustainable and intelligent transportation systems in urban environments. By gathering and processing massive amounts of data in real-time, this form of information and communication infrastructure can be instrumental towards improving traffic flow, reducing carbon emissions and promoting multi-modal mobility and enhanced coordination among public transit systems. We propose a system architecture for a Massive Multi-Sensor Urban Scanner capable of acquiring large quantities of real-time information from a vast variety of sources and sending the data to a back-end data processing cloud using multiple communication interfaces. Requirements, technical challenges, design choices and first results are explained in detail based on a prototype that is currently being deployed in Porto, Portugal.","PeriodicalId":186596,"journal":{"name":"2011 14th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)","volume":"77 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":"134003141","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":"Fixed point methods for computing within-day dynamic user equilibrium","authors":"T. Friesz, Pedro A. Neto, Amir H. Meimand","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2011.6082914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2011.6082914","url":null,"abstract":"We show that analysis of the within-day dynamic user equilibrium (DUE) problem is tremendously simplified by expressing dynamic user equilibrium as a differential variational inequality when dynamic network loading (DNL) is considered to be an embedded subproblem. The DNL problem is approximated as a system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) which may be efficiently solved using traditional numerical methods. Computing an actual dynamic user equilibrium is shown to require solution of a continuous-time fixed-point problem. A numerical example based on the much studied Sioux Falls network is presented.","PeriodicalId":186596,"journal":{"name":"2011 14th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)","volume":"34 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":"134561302","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":"Variable time discretization for a time-dependent shortest path algorithm","authors":"Ye Tian, Y. Chiu, Yang Gao","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2011.6082871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2011.6082871","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces a variable time discretization strategy for a time-dependent A∗ shortest path algorithm. The strategy is aimed at determining the optimal memory allocation for time-dependent travel times data in order to achieve a desirable compromise between accuracy and memory usage. The proposed strategy is based on the dispersion index of the travel times/costs over the entire analysis period, as a result, producing different intervals for each link. The links with travel times that have a higher variance and a lower mean will need to have a shorter time discretization length due to greater fluctuation in travel times. The proposed strategy is implemented in the time-dependent A∗ algorithm and tested with a numerical experiment on a Tucson, AZ, traffic network. The results show that with the same amount of computer memory usage, the proposed variable time discretization strategy achieves much higher accuracy than that of uniform time discretization.","PeriodicalId":186596,"journal":{"name":"2011 14th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)","volume":"48 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133557642","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":"Evaluating active traffic and demand management strategies for congested tourism traffic corridor","authors":"Hong Zheng, E. Nava, Y. Chiu","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2011.6082860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2011.6082860","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents and demonstrates, through a case study, the effectiveness of active traffic and demand management (ATDM) for a congested Interstate 70 corridor. Specifically, the ATDM strategies examined, in this study, focus on departure time adjustment under a financial incentive framework and Hard Shoulder Running. A traffic-simulation and assignment model was used to cast realistic travel choice analyses. The effectiveness of ATDM strategies in mitigating corridor congestion is verified by a set of comprehensive comparisons with different level of incentive magnitude. The result shows that combined use of several ATDM strategies is promising in significantly reducing the current congestion on I-70 corridor due to seasonal tourist traffic.","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":"114173458","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":"Surround view pedestrian detection using heterogeneous classifier cascades","authors":"Markus Gressmann, G. Palm, O. Löhlein","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2011.6082895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2011.6082895","url":null,"abstract":"Pedestrian detection is of particular interest to the automotive domain, where an accurate estimation of a pedestrian's position is the first step towards reliable collision avoidance systems. Driven by rapid advances in technology, several systems to detect pedestrians in front of a moving vehicle have been proposed in recent years. This paper introduces a novel pedestrian detection system for low-speed driving scenarios, capable of detecting pedestrians in a 360-degree fashion around the vehicle. Detected pedestrians are displayed to the driver in an intuitive way using a dynamically generated Birds's Eye View image. Furthermore, a novel classifier architecture to efficiently handle this complex application scenario is provided. By combining the processing speed of a classifier cascade with the discriminative power of a multi-stage neural network, the system achieves state of the art performance while retaining real-time capability. To keep classifier complexity low, a new feature-based inter-stage information transfer method is presented. All classifier components are compared to recent pedestrian detection approaches and evaluated on a real-world data set.","PeriodicalId":186596,"journal":{"name":"2011 14th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)","volume":"15 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":"114286613","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}
R. Sanchez, Christopher Flores, R. Horowitz, R. Rajagopal, P. Varaiya
{"title":"Arterial travel time estimation based on vehicle re-identification using magnetic sensors: Performance analysis","authors":"R. Sanchez, Christopher Flores, R. Horowitz, R. Rajagopal, P. Varaiya","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2011.6083003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2011.6083003","url":null,"abstract":"Two versions of an arterial travel time estimation method based on vehicle re-identification using wireless magnetic sensors were studied across an arterial segment with multiple intersections. Both methods are based on the same travel time estimation system, but one of them uses the so called original signal processing algorithm while the other one uses a recently modified version of it. Both methods were tested on a 0.51 km (0.32 mile)-long segment of West 34th Street in New York, NY, under harsh driving conditions (i.e. right after a winter storm). The original and modified system results were compared against ground truth data obtained from video. Based on the ground truth data it was possible to determine the travel time distribution and the percentage of vehicles that each of the different methods was able to re-identify. During an analysis period of 45 minutes, 318 vehicles were registered to go across the arterial segment. The original method has a 62% re-identification rate, while the modified method has a 69% rate. Based on comparisons of travel time distribution and empirical cumulative distribution functions, it was observed that the modified method travel time distribution is closely related to the ground truth distribution, while the original method significantly diverges from the ground truth at long travel times.","PeriodicalId":186596,"journal":{"name":"2011 14th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)","volume":"53 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":"114322333","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":"Transport psychology based cognitive architecture for traffic behavior prediction","authors":"K. Varadarajan, Kai Zhou, M. Vincze","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2011.6082797","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2011.6082797","url":null,"abstract":"Prediction of extemporaneous events in traffic surveillance is crucial in the prevention or alleviation of the gravity of accidents. Modeling of normal/ abnormal behavior and mental state inference of drivers help in the prediction of such events. Traffic psychology lends itself to the development of such models. Analysis of driver state, emotion and behavior are important components of traffic psychology. However, most models based on traffic psychology are rather abstract and lack neurobiological grounding. They are also disparate from computational models of traffic monitoring. In this paper, we extend and develop neurobiologically grounded computational models for driver state and behavior inference by mimicking the mirror neuronal architecture. The developed system uses a combination of modular cognitive neurobiological architecture combined with traditional computer vision techniques for traffic monitoring resulting in prediction and detection of extemporaneous events. Psychophysical as well as neurobiological criteria are used for evaluation on both simulated and real data. The model is shown to be robust to perturbations, with rapid convergence (less than 0.2 normalized time units) in most cases.","PeriodicalId":186596,"journal":{"name":"2011 14th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)","volume":"10 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":"114802893","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}