{"title":"One million plug-in electric vehicles on the road by 2015","authors":"A. Saber, G. Venayagamoorthy","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2009.5309691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2009.5309691","url":null,"abstract":"It is mentioned that one million plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles will be on the road by 2015 in United States to reduce emission. If one million electric vehicles (EVs) are connected to the existing electric grid randomly, peak load will be very high. Electrified transportation based on a traditional thermal power system will be costly economically and environmentally though it has a great value for electric power and transportation sectors. EVs cannot alone solve the emission problem completely since they need electric power, which is one of the main sources of emission. Therefore, significant emission reduction greatly depends on the maximum utilization of renewable energy. Two models are investigated to show the effect of one million EVs on electric power and transportation sectors. Linear and non-linear systems are used in modeling the emissions generated from the transportation and electric energy sectors respectively.","PeriodicalId":268587,"journal":{"name":"2009 12th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems","volume":"319 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115225999","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":"Hierarchical route choice control for baggage handling systems","authors":"A. Tarau, B. Schutter, H. Hellendoorn","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2009.5309846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2009.5309846","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a hierarchical control framework for state-of-the-art baggage handling systems where the luggage is transported by fast destination coded vehicles (DCVs). In this control framework switch controllers provide position instructions for each switch in the network. A collection of switch controllers is then supervised by a network controller that mainly takes care of the route choice instructions for DCVs. The route choice control problem is problem is a nonlinear, mixed integer optimization problem, with high computational requirements, which makes it intractable in practice. Therefore, we present an alternative approach for reducing the complexity of the computations by approximating the nonlinear optimization problem and rewriting it as a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) problem for which solvers are available that allow us to efficiently compute the global optimal solution. The solution of the MILP problem is then used in computing optimal switch control actions. For a benchmark case study we compare the hierarchical control with centralized switch control. The results indicate that the proposed hierarchical control offers a balanced trade-off between optimality and computational efficiency.","PeriodicalId":268587,"journal":{"name":"2009 12th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115492310","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}
M. Meuter, Stefan Müller-Schneiders, A. Mika, S. Hold, C. Nunn, A. Kummert
{"title":"A novel approach to lane detection and tracking","authors":"M. Meuter, Stefan Müller-Schneiders, A. Mika, S. Hold, C. Nunn, A. Kummert","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2009.5309855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2009.5309855","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a new robust approach for camera based lane recognition is presented. The tracking filter and the detection interact such that the tracking filter is used to place a region of interest for a detection of lane segments in various distances, and each successful detection is used to update the lane geometry in the tracking filter. A novel and time efficient detection algorithm is used to detect the position and the slope of the lane segments. To be able to cope with sudden changes in the curvature, two interacting Extended Kalman filters are used to select the bandwidth for the filter. To our best knowledge this algorithm has not been applied to vision based lane tracking before. First results indicate that our approach is robust and real time capable with an average execution time of below 3 ms on a 3Ghz standard PC.","PeriodicalId":268587,"journal":{"name":"2009 12th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems","volume":"191 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116521134","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}
Ameena S Padiath, L. Vanajakshi, S. Subramanian, Harish Manda
{"title":"Prediction of traffic density for congestion analysis under Indian traffic conditions","authors":"Ameena S Padiath, L. Vanajakshi, S. Subramanian, Harish Manda","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2009.5309716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2009.5309716","url":null,"abstract":"Traffic congestion is a serious problem which traffic engineers all over the world are trying to solve. Congestion increases the uncertainty in travel times leading to human stress and unsafe traffic situations. Better management of traffic through Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) applications, especially by predicting the congestion on various roads and informing the travelers regarding the same is one possible solution. Accurate and quick prediction is one of the important factors on which the reliability of such a system depends. If one is able to predict congestion on a roadway, then the travelers can be warned of the same either pre-trip or enroute so that they can take well informed travel decisions. The number of vehicles in a given stretch of a roadway (usually referred to as “traffic density”) is one of the most commonly used congestion indicator. Also, the travelers in general will be more interested to know what they can expect when they make the trip in future rather than the present scenario. This makes the short term prediction to future time intervals important. In this study, some of the reported techniques for density prediction under homogeneous traffic conditions are attempted under heterogeneous traffic conditions in order to determine their feasibility under the Indian traffic scenario.","PeriodicalId":268587,"journal":{"name":"2009 12th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121905185","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":"Optimal path in dynamic and stochastic networks","authors":"Tahar Berradia, J. Mouzna","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2009.5309878","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2009.5309878","url":null,"abstract":"In transportation, the path finding problem is usually defined as the Shortest Path (SP) problem in deterministic terms (distance, deterministic cost, etc.). However, in real life situation, many information are uncertainty (travel time, travel cost or combination of criteria). In this paper we present a formulation for the multi-objective paths problem in dynamic and stochastic networks. In order to solve this problem a procedure integrating stochastic simulation and genetic algorithm proposed by Chen in [15] is applied and some numerical examples are given to validate our idea.","PeriodicalId":268587,"journal":{"name":"2009 12th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128494777","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":"Providing VANET position integrity through filtering","authors":"Gongjun Yan, Xingwang Chen, S. Olariu","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2009.5309674","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2009.5309674","url":null,"abstract":"We describe an efficient method for positioning a vehicle in a noisy environment including malicious attackers and measurement errors. We assume the majority vehicles are honest and report the detection of position of other vehicles to provide vehicle position integrity in Vehicular Adhoc NETwork (VANET). The noise input includes bogus position information and position with measurement errors in VANET. Given such noisy input, the algorithm estimates the high resolution location of a vehicle by filtering the malicious location input and by refining low resolution location input. Moreover, the efficiency of the algorithm is highlighted because of the dynamic characteristic of vehicles. We also present results of simulations and evaluate the quality of position estimation.","PeriodicalId":268587,"journal":{"name":"2009 12th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128985238","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}
F. Cortés, F. Barrero, S. T. Marín, J. Prieto, J. Guevara
{"title":"Multi-sensor integration in the vehicular system using the IEEE1451 Std.: A case study","authors":"F. Cortés, F. Barrero, S. T. Marín, J. Prieto, J. Guevara","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2009.5309836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2009.5309836","url":null,"abstract":"The integration of the electronic equipments into the vehicular system has become a necessity to enhance safety in road transportation. The Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) make this integration possible. The IEEE Std. 1451 standardizes the interface and communication protocol between networked electronic equipments. This paper proposes the architecture to integrate the existing electronic equipments into the vehicular system using the IEEE 1451 standard. The vehicle propulsion module is used as a case example.","PeriodicalId":268587,"journal":{"name":"2009 12th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126673913","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}
Steffen Gonner, Dennis Müller, S. Hold, M. Meuter, A. Kummert
{"title":"Vehicle recognition and TTC estimation at night based on spotlight pairing","authors":"Steffen Gonner, Dennis Müller, S. Hold, M. Meuter, A. Kummert","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2009.5309848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2009.5309848","url":null,"abstract":"Forward Collision Warning (FCW) together with Lane Departure Warning (LDW) and Electronic Stability Control (ESC) can highly contribute to a safer traffic environment. Therefore those three systems will be supported by the US NCAP (New Car Assessment Program) until the end of 2009 and rewarded in the new active safety rating. LDW and ESC are already on the market whereas development on the first vision-based FCW systems is still ongoing and enforced. This paper will give a short overview on common approaches in vehicle recognition and focus on nighttime conditions. Based on existing head- and taillight detection algorithms for Adaptive Headlamp Control (AHC) a novel vehicle detection algorithm is presented. The main challenge hereby is the accurate pairing of detected vehicle spots. The developed system also contains rough distance estimation and a robust Time-To-Collision (TTC) calculation. Sequences in various traffic conditions with hand-labeled vehicles serve as an evaluation set for the vehicle detection performance. Ground truth for TTC is available by radar sensor data. The system proves to be robust in various near-collision situations.","PeriodicalId":268587,"journal":{"name":"2009 12th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130667501","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":"Structural health monitoring and structural identification for long-span bridges","authors":"K. Grimmelsman","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2009.5309514","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2009.5309514","url":null,"abstract":"Structural Health Monitoring and Structural Identification are concepts that are more frequently being applied to improve the reliability and effectiveness of operational and maintenance management for constructed systems. This paper describes why the need for such paradigms continues to grow, and discusses many of the limitations associated with current approaches for assessing and evaluating the performance and condition of civil infrastructure. Several examples of full-scale testing programs applied to long-span bridges are presented to illustrate typical application scenarios and quantitative characterization methods that can be employed. These examples also describe possible sources of uncertainty that can be encountered when executing experimental characterization programs for long span bridges.","PeriodicalId":268587,"journal":{"name":"2009 12th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123622515","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":"Fog detection system based on computer vision techniques","authors":"Sebastián Bronte, L. Bergasa, P. Alcantarilla","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2009.5309842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2009.5309842","url":null,"abstract":"In this document, a real-time fog detection system using an on-board low cost b&w camera, for a driving application, is presented. This system is based on two clues: estimation of the visibility distance, which is calculated from the camera projection equations and the blurring due to the fog. Because of the water particles floating in the air, sky light gets diffuse and, focus on the road zone, which is one of the darkest zones on the image. The apparent effect is that some part of the sky introduces in the road. Also in foggy scenes, the border strength is reduced in the upper part of the image. These two sources of information are used to make this system more robust. The final purpose of this system is to develop an automatic vision-based diagnostic system for warning ADAS of possible wrong working conditions. Some experimental results and the conclusions about this work are presented.","PeriodicalId":268587,"journal":{"name":"2009 12th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126545619","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}