Demonstration of Intelligent Transport Applications Using Freight Transport GPS Data

Most of the existing studies on floating vehicle data are focused on traffic information retrieval. There are still few studies that demonstrate how this type of data can be, directly or indirectly, applied for ITS systems and other traffic applications. This paper presents a web-based information system which integrates database technology, information estimation methods and traffic visualization approaches. Floating vehicle data is collected from freight truck and used to estimate traffic information including link travel time, route travel time and various congestion indices. Based on the information, two applications, trip planning and traffic visualization, are designed with simple and interactive user interface. The trip planning application supports user-selected origin-destination routing and visualization of temporal variation of the route travel time. In traffic visualization application, congestion indices are computed and an animated map is designed which enables the user to explore the congestion on a network in different periods of day together with link travel time distribution. A demonstration of the system shows that it can be used for dynamic trip planning and provides an efficient way for visualizing spatial and temporal patterns of congestion on a network as well as patterns of link travel time.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABJ95 Standing Committee on Visualization in Transportation.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Yang, Can
  • Ma, Xiaoliang
  • Ban, Yifang
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2016-1-10 to 2016-1-14
• Date: 2016

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 16p
• Monograph Title: TRB 95th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Planning; Probe vehicles; Routing; Traffic congestion; Travel time; Visualization
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Freight Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01590391
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 16-6951
• Files: PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 17 2016 11:59AM