Distributed Travel Mode Estimation

The Danish Road Directorate (DRD) is gathering near-real time floating vehicle data from commercial fleet operator units to gather historic traffic patterns and to determine the real time state of the infrastructure. So far data has only been retrieved from regular global positioning system (GPS) units in motorized vehicles. DRD is now introducing smartphone apps to get better coverage of the road infrastructure. With this the need to estimate the travel mode of each smartphone becomes clear. This paper suggests a simple method for processing data from sensors available on most smartphones today to detect the travel mode while reporting GPS coordinates.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Intelligent Transportation Society of America.
• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

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• Authors:
  • Randleff, Lars Rosenberg
  • Wanscher, Jørgen Bundgaard
  • Zabic, Martina
• Conference:
  • 19th ITS World Congress
  • Location: Vienna , Austria
  • Date: 2012-10-22 to 2012-10-26
• Publication Date: 2012

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: CD-ROM; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 6p
• Monograph Title: 19th ITS World Congress, Vienna, Austria, 22 to 26 October 2012

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Commercial vehicles; Floating car data; Mode choice; Sensors; Smartphones; Traffic data; Travel patterns
• Geographic Terms: Denmark
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01494475
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 25 2013 12:08PM