Paper Info
Title
Ultrasonic vehicle detector for side-fire implementation and extensive results including harsh conditions
Abstract
Concerns vehicle detectors, which collect passing vehicle information and traffic condition in real time. This paper develops an ultrasonic vehicle detector (UVD) system that can be implemented in a side-fire configuration. Conventionally, UVD systems are installed in overhead configurations. If these sensors can be mounted from the side of a road, the installation cost can be reduced. In addition, the aesthetic integrity of roadways will not be affected very much. However, this side-fire configuration has not been used, because of the fact that vehicles generally do not have sufficiently large oblique-angled surfaces to reflect the emitted ultrasonic wave back to the sensor for detection. This paper reports on the feasibility of a side-fire UVD system. A new low-cost instrumentation and control system for side-fire implementation was developed, and comprehensive experiments were performed at highway and downtown test sites. Experimental conditions included various traffic conditions as well as various weather conditions, including daylight, dusk, night, heavy rain, and heavy snow. Traffic data were generated for every five minutes. For the highway location, the vehicle counting error was less than 1%. For the downtown location, the error was approximately 3% during normal weather conditions and approximately 5% during a snow storm. The larger error in downtown is mainly attributed to vehicles changing lane. We believe that these side-fire implementation results are adequate for implementing advanced traveler information systems (ATIS)
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1109/6979.954546
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
heavy snow,downtown test sites,control system,advanced traveler information systems,vehicle information,side-fire implementation result,uvd system,night,dusk,daylight,advanced traveler information system,heavy rain,concerns vehicle detector,ultraviolet detectors,uv vehicle detector,atis,harsh condition,traffic condition detection,aesthetic integrity,ultrasonic vehicle detector,side-fire configuration,automated highways,side-fire implementation,harsh conditions,extensive result,side-fire uvd system,weather,highway test sites,snow,control systems,real time,surface waves,detectors,indexing terms
Ultrasonic sensor,Simulation,Winter storm,Daylight,Dusk,Engineering,Control system,Detector,Snow,Instrumentation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2
3
1524-9050
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
1.02
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hyungjin Kim122114.63
Joo-Hyune Lee271.02
Sungwook Kim318630.95
Jae-In Ko471.02
Dong-Il Cho53911.45