HEADWAY AND SPEED DATA ACQUISITION USING VIDEO

Accurate knowledge of vehicle speeds and headways on traffic networks is a fundamental part of transport systems modelling. Video and recently developed automatic data extraction techniques have the potential to provide a cheap, quick, easy and accurate method of investigating traffic systems. This paper presents two studies that utilize video based equipment to investigate the character of vehicle speeds and headways. Investigation of headways on freeway traffic allows the potential of this technology in a high speed environment to be determined. Its application to the study of speeds in parking lots enabled its usefulness in low speed environments to be studied. The data obtained from the video was compared to traditional methods of collecting headway and speed data (a). This paper was prepared for the transportation research board annual meeting, January 1989, Washington, DC, USA.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Monash University

  Department of Civil Engineering
  Clayton, Victoria  Australia  3800
• Authors:
  • TAYLOR, MAP
  • YOUNG, W
  • Thompson, Russell G
• Publication Date: 1988-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 15 p.
• Serial:
  • CIVIL ENGINEERING WORKING PAPER
  • Issue Number: 88/7
  • Publisher: Monash University
  • ISSN: 0156-2126

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Data collection; Evaluation and assessment; Freeways; Headways; Image processing; Mathematical models; Motion; Networks; Parking facilities; Recording; Roads; Speed; Television; Traffic; Transportation; Vehicles
• Uncontrolled Terms: Road networks; Transportation networks
• ITRD Terms: 916: Car park; 8525: Conference; 8623: Data acquisition; 9020: Evaluation (assessment); 685: Headway; 8633: Image processing; 6473: Mathematical model; 2752: Motorway; 5483: Movement; 1054: Network (traffic); 6969: Recording; 1053: Road network; 5408: Speed; 6949: Television; 755: Traffic; 1255: Vehicle
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Terminals and Facilities; Transportation (General); Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00487287
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Sep 30 1989 12:00AM