Inertial Measurement Unit-Based Traffic Monitoring Using Short Range Wireless Sensor Networks

Most probe vehicle data is generated using satellite navigation systems such as the Global Positioning System (GPS), Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) or Galileo systems. However, because of their high cost and relatively high position uncertainty and low sampling rate, satellite positioning systems have a relatively low penetration rate among users. To address this issue, the authors introduce a new traffic monitoring concept based on inexpensive inertial measurement units in conjunction with a wireless sensor network deployed inside a city. After discussing the sensing technique, the authors present a preliminary implementation of this system using an open source robotic platform. Preliminary results show that this system can be used to generate traffic measurement data.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABJ35 Highway Traffic Monitoring.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Mousa, Mustafa
  • Abdulaal, Mohammed
  • Boyles, Stephen
  • Claudel, Christian
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2015-1-11 to 2015-1-15
• Date: 2015

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Maps; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 20p
• Monograph Title: TRB 94th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Implementation; Probe vehicles; Sensors; Traffic data; Traffic surveillance; Wireless communication systems
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01557757
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 15-4072
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 25 2015 4:20PM