{"title":"Identifying Station-Link Correlation for Target Passenger Flow Control in Subway Network","authors":"Zhaocheng He, Yixian Chen, Lijun Sun, Jiaming Zhong, Yiting Zhu","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569533","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569533","url":null,"abstract":"Subway systems of most metropolitan cities worldwide are suffering from the problem of overloaded passenger flow especially during rush-hour of weekday. To address it, passenger flow control strategy is widely adopted by developing subway system in order to improve the operational efficiency and ensure passengers' safety. However, current strategy is usually formulated by the subjective experience of operation staff at each station. Their inability to grasp the correlation between station flow and link flow in the entire subway network can possibly cause reverse effect and passengers' dissatisfaction. In this paper, a new coordinated-based passenger flow control method, using the internal relation of stations and links, is proposed to handle this issue during rush-hour of regular weekday with the aim of minimizing the negative impact on irrelevant travelers. Using this approach, one can determine the target control stations with specific control strength in different period of rush-hour. An experiment is conducted on a realworld subway network in Guangzhou to examine the validity of the method. Result shows that our strategy is more advanced and effective compared to the actual one.","PeriodicalId":395239,"journal":{"name":"2018 21st International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125603256","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":"Closed-Loop Planning for Disaster Evacuation with Stochastic Arrivals","authors":"Chelsea Sidrane, Mykel J. Kochenderfer","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569957","url":null,"abstract":"Effective evacuation efforts can save lives during natural disasters. Uncertainty makes planning optimal evacuation routes difficult. Most current approaches use open-loop deterministic linear programming and integer programming. Robust programming variants have also been proposed. In this paper, we frame the evacuation route planning problem as a Markov decision process (MDP). We solve the MDP approximately using deterministic mixed-integer programs (MIPs) solved in a closed-loop fashion. We benchmark this policy against the optimal MDP policy where tractable. We also solve deterministic integer programs in an open-loop fashion to compare against our closed-loop MIP solutions. Closed-loop integer programming techniques are shown to obtain up to 90% of the performance of the optimal MDP policy, and can outperform open-loop approaches by as much as 52%. Performance is measured in terms of number of lives saved.","PeriodicalId":395239,"journal":{"name":"2018 21st International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122617582","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}
Lorenz Prasch, F. Gebler, Jakob Reinhardt, K. Bengler
{"title":"You do the talking. Passengers are happy when the automation decides on cooperation","authors":"Lorenz Prasch, F. Gebler, Jakob Reinhardt, K. Bengler","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569287","url":null,"abstract":"When driving autonomously, there is huge potential for connected vehicles to improve not only safety and comfort, but also traffic flow or road capacity. Via coordination of the driving maneuvers of several vehicles it is possible to automate cooperative driving behavior and even further increase traffic flow. Humans however do not like to be dominated by automated systems. Hence, the question arises on how an automated system should react if a cooperation would be possible. In order to investigate this, we designed an assistance system that could trigger requests for cooperation in merging scenarios and perform different maneuvers (lane-change or braking) depending on the traffic situation. It provided the participant with sufficient time to either accept or decline incoming requests and when no active choice was made, a default reaction (either cooperative behavior, uncooperative behavior or triggering a take-over request) was shown by the system. Results in terms of cooperation rate and system acceptance indicate that the automation should either behave cooperatively or uncooperatively with a slight favor for cooperative behavior. In general, performing a lane-change in order to enable cooperation was favorable compared to braking.","PeriodicalId":395239,"journal":{"name":"2018 21st International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)","volume":"131 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122698269","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}
D. Isgro, G. Mantegazza, S. Formentin, Giulio Panzani, S. Savaresi
{"title":"On-Line Data-Based Load Classification in Narrow-Track Vehicles","authors":"D. Isgro, G. Mantegazza, S. Formentin, Giulio Panzani, S. Savaresi","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569017","url":null,"abstract":"In automotive applications, the knowledge of the vehicle load is a crucial factor that can bring significant improvement on safety and performance, e.g. in ABS or semiactive suspensions control. In narrow-track vehicles, this aspect is even more important, considering that the mass variation - w.r.t to the vehicle one - is higher than in standard vehicles. The objective of this work is to present an on-line data-based mass classifier based on inertial sensors only. The effectiveness of the approach is assessed on experimental data taken from a real vehicle.","PeriodicalId":395239,"journal":{"name":"2018 21st International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122815937","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}
Alexander Buchegger, Konstantin Lassnig, Stefan Loigge, Clemens Mühlbacher, Gerald Steinbauer
{"title":"An Autonomous Vehicle for Parcel Delivery in Urban Areas","authors":"Alexander Buchegger, Konstantin Lassnig, Stefan Loigge, Clemens Mühlbacher, Gerald Steinbauer","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569339","url":null,"abstract":"The flexible and individualized transportation of goods is a central task of today's e-economy. In urban and highly populated areas autonomous electric vehicles are a promising solution for this task while simultaneously addressing ecological issues. While in indoor environments transport robots are well adopted, autonomous transport vehicles are hardly seen outdoors. In this paper, we aim at this gap and adapt and transfer concepts usually used in robotics to autonomous vehicles for an outdoor environment. We present an autonomous vehicle that is able to safely navigate in urban environments while able to deliver parcels efficiently. In particular, we will discuss a scalable and robust mapping and navigation process that forms the basis for the capabilities of the delivery vehicle. Moreover, we show preliminary results of a deployment of the system in two urban scenarios.","PeriodicalId":395239,"journal":{"name":"2018 21st International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131454755","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}
Jennie Lioris, H. Salem, R. Seidowsky, J. Lebacque
{"title":"Dynamic strategies optimizing benefits of fully autonomous shared vehicle fleets","authors":"Jennie Lioris, H. Salem, R. Seidowsky, J. Lebacque","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569605","url":null,"abstract":"A constrained optimization framework of a flexible demand responsive transport system is considered. An intelligently administered scheme consisting of unmanned vehicles, requiring no prior seat reservation is introduced ensuring high quality door-to-door services at reduced costs. A decentralized decision making scheme comprised of various model based adaptive control patterns is developed. At any time optimized use of the available vehicle capacity is achieved while keeping cars as busy as possible. Vehicle itineraries are smartly defined according to their current state, traffic conditions and demand as well customer preferences. Tolerated passenger detours are respected while taking into consideration the related client waiting time. The asynchronous system behavior is modeled based on theory and methodology of discrete event dynamic systems (DEDS). Discrete event simulations permit evaluation of the system performance as well optimal tuning of the involved control algorithms. After identification of the desirable DEDS states the system is guided to controllable events infinitely often. As a case study, the city of Paris is considered. A comparative study is conducted appraising the suggested vehicle fleet versus a scheme consisting of self-service autonomous vehicles (SSAV). Metrics on cars, clients and network are presented such as trip durations, client waiting time and queue lengths at nodes, vehicle occupancy etc.","PeriodicalId":395239,"journal":{"name":"2018 21st International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121736529","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":"Urban Road Network Operation Quality Evaluation Method Based on High-Frequency Trajectory Data","authors":"Pengfei Lin, Jian-cheng Weng, Baocai Yin, Xiaoping Zhou","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569750","url":null,"abstract":"Urban traffic congestion has become a big problem that obstructs sustainable urban development. Enhancing the road network operation quality is an effective way to alleviate congestion. The evaluation of urban road network operation quality is different from the congestion evaluation; it is a method for measuring the controllability of urban road network with increasing traffic demand pressure. Based on the two-fluid model of urban macroscopic traffic flow theory, two indicators including the Traffic Smoothness Index (TSI) and the Network Adaptability Index (NAI) were established to describe the urban road network operation quality. The model of large-scale high-frequency trajectory data processing to calculate the operation quality evaluation indicators was proposed. Then, two China cities of Beijing and Shanghai were taken as examples to analyze the operation quality of urban road network. The results show that the quality of the road network operation in Shanghai is better than that of Beijing. The degree of smoothness of the two cities' road network gradually improves from the downtown area to the border of urban area, but the road network in downtown areas have higher adaptability in both cities. The study is of great significance to improve the operation quality of urban road network and the service level of traffic system.","PeriodicalId":395239,"journal":{"name":"2018 21st International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127591152","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":"Tactical Decision Making for Cooperative Vehicles Using Reachable Sets","authors":"Stefanie Manzinger, M. Althoff","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569560","url":null,"abstract":"Tactical maneuver planning of multiple, communicating vehicles provides the opportunity to increase passenger safety and comfort. We propose a unifying method to orchestrate the motion of cooperative vehicles based on the negotiation of conflicting road areas, which are determined by reachable set computation. As a result, each vehicle receives an individual driving corridor for trajectory planning. The presented conflict resolution scheme has polynomial runtime complexity and is guaranteed to find the optimal allocation of road areas for each negotiation round. Our method is not tailored to specific traffic situations but is applicable to general traffic scenes with manually driven and automated vehicles. We demonstrate the universal usability of our approach in numerical experiments.","PeriodicalId":395239,"journal":{"name":"2018 21st International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128014667","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}
Gledson Melotti, C. Premebida, Nuno Gonçalves, U. Nunes, D. Faria
{"title":"Multimodal CNN Pedestrian Classification: A Study on Combining LIDAR and Camera Data","authors":"Gledson Melotti, C. Premebida, Nuno Gonçalves, U. Nunes, D. Faria","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569666","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a study on pedestrian classification based on deep learning using data from a monocular camera and a 3D LIDAR sensor, separately and in combination. Early and late multi-modal sensor fusion approaches are revisited and compared in terms of classification performance. The problem of pedestrian classification finds applications in advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) and autonomous driving, and it has regained particular attention recently because, among other reasons, safety involving self-driving vehicles. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) is used in this work as classifier in distinct situations: having a single sensor data as input, and by combining data from both sensors in the CNN input layer. Range (distance) and intensity (reflectance) data from LIDAR are considered as separate channels, where data from the LIDAR sensor is feed to the CNN in the form of dense maps, as the result of sensor coordinate transformation and spatial filtering; this allows a direct implementation of the same CNN-based approach on both sensors data. In terms of late-fusion, the outputs from individual CNNs are combined by means of learning and non-learning approaches. Pedestrian classification is evaluated on a ‘binary classification’ dataset created from the KITTI Vision Benchmark Suite, and results are shown for each sensor-modality individually, and for the fusion strategies.","PeriodicalId":395239,"journal":{"name":"2018 21st International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115064718","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":"Traffic Congestion Assessment of Metropolitan Areas Through Hybrid Model Ranking","authors":"Alexander S. Lee, Wei-Hua Lin","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569603","url":null,"abstract":"Many methodologies have been developed to rank entities. The goal of developing ranking methodologies is to provide a means for decision-making. The current issue with ranking is that most results in terms of ranks are based on only one method. To resolve this issue, this paper proposes a hybrid model approach in the area of transportation and traffic safety. The hybrid model consists of the Normalized Score Summation Method, Principal Component Analysis, and the similarity measure based on the Proportion Discordance Ratio. The goal of this paper is to ensure the consistency of results from the three methodologies mentioned above. Its numeric analysis shows that results based on the hybrid model are more realistic and robust than the ones solely based on only one method.","PeriodicalId":395239,"journal":{"name":"2018 21st International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115095499","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}