Paper Info
Title
COTraMS: A Collaborative and Opportunistic Traffic Monitoring System.
Abstract
Traffic monitoring and control are becoming more and more important as the number of vehicles and traffic jams grow. Nevertheless, these tasks are still predominantly performed by visual means using strategically placed video cameras. For more effectiveness, proposals to improve traffic monitoring and control should consider automated systems. In this paper, we propose the Collaborative and Opportunistic Traffic Monitoring System (COTraMS), which is a system that monitors traffic using available IEEE 802.11 networks. COTraMS is collaborative because user participation is essential in defining the vehicle movement and opportunistic because it uses existing information. To evaluate the performance of COTraMS, a prototype is implemented using an IEEE 802.11 b/g network. Measurements from a real public wireless network in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, demonstrate the possibility of obtaining traffic conditions with our proposed monitoring system. In addition, we analyze COTraMS via simulation to evaluate its performance in scenarios with a larger number of vehicles. The comparison of the obtained results with data obtained from Global Positioning System shows high accuracy in detecting both the position of the vehicle and the estimation of the road condition, using a simple architecture and a small amount of network bandwidth.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/TITS.2013.2291996
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
wireless networks,wireless application protocol,prototypes,collaboration,algorithms,global positioning system
Wireless network,Traffic generation model,Floating car data,Computer network,Traffic simulation,Bandwidth (signal processing),Global Positioning System,Engineering,G-network,Network traffic control
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
15
3
1524-9050
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.37
15
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
José Geraldo Ribeiro Jr.191.20
Miguel Elias M. Campista228129.97
Luís Henrique Maciel Kosmalski Costa327733.90