Courses and Research

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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

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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