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Estimating Roadway Traffic Conditions Via Anonymous Tracking of Cell Phones
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| Speaker
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Bruce Hellinga, PhD PEng
Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON
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| Day and Time
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Friday, April 13, 2007, 11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
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| Location
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University of Toronto ITS Centre
Room SF 3103
Sandford Fleming Building
University of Toronto - St. George Campus
10 Kings College Circle map - code SF |
| Organizer
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Signals & Computational Intelligence Joint Chapter and Signal Processing Chapter |
| Contact
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Bruno Di Stefano, E-mail:
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| Abstract
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In large urban areas dedicated fixed traffic sensors are deployed on major
freeways (e.g. COMPASS and RESCU systems in Ontario) enabling traffic
operators to collect high quality road condition information in real time.
However, almost no real time information is available for all other roadways
and full instrumentation of all major highways and arterials is cost
prohibitive. Consequently, travellers are unable to make informed decisions
about the best travel mode, departure time, and route, and traffic managers
are unable to predict or monitor the effect of management strategies for
roadways outside of the instrumented freeway corridors. The lack of
information causes frustration on the part of travellers and transportation
system managers and often results in poor decisions.
Recent developments within the wireless communication field provide the
opportunity to obtain traffic condition information over a wide spatial area
in near real time without the deployment of dedicated traffic sensors. A
limited number of commercial systems have emerged in the market and several
evaluation studies in North America are currently underway or have been
recently completed. Most of the research and commercial activity in the area
of network wide traffic monitoring has focused on the estimation of speed or
travel time; however, this technology may support a wide range of other
traffic management activities.
This talk describes the techniques that can be utilized to obtain wireless
network wide traffic monitoring; explores the opportunities that wide area
monitoring provides; identifies existing commercial systems; summarizes the
published results of evaluations of these systems; and identifies some of
the key technical challenges that remain to be addressed.
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| Biography
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Dr. Bruce Hellinga is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Waterloo and an active member of the Transportation Systems Research Group.
Within this capacity, Dr. Hellinga is responsible for the development, administration, and instruction of graduate and undergraduate engineering courses, as well as conducting and supervising advanced traffic and transportation engineering research for both the public and private sectors.
http://www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/bhellinga/
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