DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF INCIDENT DETECTION ALGORITHMS FOR ELECTRONIC DETECTOR SYSTEMS ON FREEWAYS

The report describes the development and evaluation of incident detection algorithms for detector-computer systems. The study consists of four parts: Investigation of traffic phenomena under incident situations; development of incident detection algorithms; development of a simulation model of freeway traffic performance; and evaluation of incident detection algorithms using the simulation model, TRAFFIC. Two incident detection algorithms, the dynamical model and the stream discontinuity model are proposed. It is shown that the dynamical model produced very promising results.

• Corporate Authors:

  University of California, Berkeley

  Institute of Transportation and Traffic Engineering
  Berkeley, CA  United States 

  Department of Transportation

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Sakasita, M
  • May, A D
• Publication Date: 1974-8

Media Info

• Pagination: 225 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Algorithms; Computer programs; Computers; Detectors; Electronic equipment; Evaluation; Freeways; Highway traffic control; Mathematical models; Monte Carlo method; Simulation; Surveillance; Time series analysis; Traffic engineering; Traffic flow; Transfer functions
• Uncontrolled Terms: Models
• Old TRIS Terms: Electronic devices
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00092120
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: Intrm Rpt., DOT/TST-75-94
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Oct 18 1976 12:00AM