Semiautomated Tool for Extraction of Microlevel Traffic Data from Videographic Survey

Real-world traffic data collection, extraction, and analysis at a microscopic level is necessary for modeling various traffic and transportation phenomena. In developing countries such as India, where the traffic is characterized by different vehicle types and non-lane-based vehicle movement, an effective tool for vehicle data extraction and analysis is necessary. Development of a fully automated software tool for vehicle trajectory extraction is practically impossible because of the weak lane-based movement of vehicles and occlusion. For addressing these issues, a semiautomated tool, a traffic data extractor, was developed to extract the details of vehicle movements with good accuracy (0.1 s). A videographic survey followed by a camera calibration technique was used to obtain the real-world coordinates from two-dimensional image coordinates. The concept of a vanishing point–based camera calibration technique was used in this tool. The steps involved in handling the developed tool and its applications in microscopic traffic data extraction and analysis are presented.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.3141/2443-10
• Summary URL:
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• Authors:
  • Munigety, Caleb Ronald
  • Vicraman, Vivek
  • Mathew, Tom V
• Publication Date: 2014

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 88–95
• Monograph Title: Urban and Traffic Data Systems 2014, Volume 2
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • Issue Number: 2443
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Calibration; Data collection; Lane lines; Mathematical models; Microscopic traffic flow; Microsimulation; Road markings; Technological innovations; Traffic data; Traffic surveillance; Video; Video cameras
• Geographic Terms: India
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; I70: Traffic and Transport; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01520295
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780309295314
• Report/Paper Numbers: 14-4174
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 27 2014 3:38PM