A System for Collecting and Mapping Traffic Congestion in a Network Using GPS Smartphones from Regular Drivers

This paper presents an update on the current development of a smartphone-based system for collecting and analyzing route global positioning system (GPS) data coming from regular driver routes. Using GPS functionality on Android and iOS smartphones to log route data, a large database containing thousands of trips was collected in a short period of time after a mass-media campaign in Quebec City. As part of the system, a platform was built for mapping traffic congestion using the average speed and speed differential at the link level. The system includes a number of components: i) a smartphone application, ii) a server-platform to receive and display raw data, and iii) an analytics platform to compute and display different link-level speed (or travel time) measures with interactive maps. As a result of the smartphone GPS data collection method, a large dataset of information was generated from more than 30,000 trips collected in 3 weeks and more than 4,000 drivers emitting trips on a voluntary basis. The results demonstrate the feasibility and promising potential of the data collection system that can be implemented in any city and sets the ground for real-time applications.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABJ50 Information Systems and Technology.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Miranda-Moreno, Luis F
  • Chung, Charles
  • Amyot, Didier
  • Chapon, Herve
• 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; References;
• Pagination: 16p
• Monograph Title: TRB 94th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data collection; Databases; Global Positioning System; Mapping; Smartphones; Traffic congestion; Travel time
• Geographic Terms: Quebec (Canada)
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01557367
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 15-3792
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 20 2015 3:19PM