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Courses and Research
Yinhai WangOctober 7, 2009
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About Myself
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Traffic Is Getting Worse
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Why?
From the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics 2009
6.3%
53.2%
95.7%
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Countermeasures
Construct new roads
Reduce traffic
Increase capacity of the existing infrastructure by employing ITS technologies
Travel demand control
Improve transit service
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Is It a Possible Approach?
Do you think we can increase highway capacity by applying advanced technologies?
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Data Is Crucial for the Success of ITS
Quality Data
Control Center
E-Message Sign
ATIS
! !
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Where Are the Data From?
Traffic Detection Controller
Sensors
Data Archive
Data Server
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Details?
CEE 579 Advanced Traffic Detection Systems 3 credits. Spring Quarter
General introduction to the following systems:
Radar gun Remote Traffic Microwave Sensor (RTMS) GPS based vehicle navigation Priority Vehicle Detection Weigh In Motion (WIM) sensors
In depth instruction on Inductive loop detection systems Computer vision based detection systems
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Nationwide Network of Data
To a nationwide network of data
From Spots of data
A Public Private Partnership: shared risk shared benefit shared contribution
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How To Handle These Data?
If loop measurements are archived every 20 second, 4,000 single loop detectors require
24 * 3600 / 20 * 50 * 4000 = 864 MB storage space per day!
Remember this is just data from loop detectors. We have also accident data, freight data, video data, …, to deal with!
With these data in hand, how to manage and use them sufficiently to support our decision making?
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That’s Why We Offer CEE 412
CEE 412: Transportation Data Management and Analysis
• Store and retrieve transportation data efficiently become increasingly important• Optimal decisions should be made based on computation results from these available data
This course will help to build up fundamental knowledge and skills for database design, data management, and basic skills for transportation analysis.
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Intelligence Requires Data
With good traffic data, we can make our control systems smarter than this .
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Provide the Best Traffic Operations
CEE 590 Traffic System Operations (Traffic System Control and Simulation) Traffic Control Systems Traffic Operations Simulation Application Software
Vissim
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Check the Course Websites for Details
Details of my courses are available on line at:
CEE 412:http://courses.washington.edu/cee412/
CEE 579:http://courses.washington.edu/cee599f/
CEE 590:http://courses.washington.edu/cee590s/
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STAR Lab
Smart Transportation Applications and Research Laboratory (STAR Lab): More 112
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STAR Lab Is Dedicated to Innovative Research
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STAR Lab Research Interests
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
Traffic Detection Technologies Traffic Simulation; Traffic Operations; Environmental Impacts of Traffic
Operations; and Traffic Flow Theory.
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STAR Lab Facilities
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STAR Lab Facilities
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STAR Lab Facilities
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Star Lab Research Projects
Area-Wide Ramp Meter Control
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Star Lab Research Projects
Incident-Induced Daley Estimation
Lane blocking incident
Upstream loop station Downstream loop station
Vehicle Queue Caused by a Lane-Blocking Incident
Driving direction
TdTime
V3
V1
V2
Cum
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Tra
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V
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Queuing Diagram for Incident-Induced Travel DelayTr
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Star Lab Research Projects
Video Data SourceWinTV USB
CardComputer
Video Datalink
VVDC
Video Data SourceWinTV USB
CardComputer
Video Datalink
VVDC
State of the Art
25Pedestrian Detection and Tracking
BIC(k=1)=2022BIC(k=2)=1887
BIC(k=1)=2511BIC(k=2)=3182
Orange path line
Green path line
Active path Inactive path
Orange path line
Green path line
Active path Inactive path
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Star Lab Research Projects
ALEDA
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Star Lab Research Projects
HOT Lane Simulation
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Star Lab Research Projects
Source: http://www.gis.unbc.ca/courses/nres799/projects/2005/hurley/index.htm
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Star Lab Research Projects
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Star Lab Research Projects
http://www.uwdrive.net/
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Travel Time Data Collection
Bluetooth-Signal-Based Vehicle Tracking
Bluetooth signal
MAC AddressMatching
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