Title
Detecting Road Traffic Events by Coupling Multiple Timeseries With a Nonparametric Bayesian Method
Abstract
Road traffic sensors provide rich multivariable datastreams about the current traffic conditions. Occasionally, there are unusual traffic events (such as accidents, jams, and severe weather) that disrupt the expected road traffic conditions. Detecting the occurrence of such events in an online and real-time manner is useful to drivers in planning their routes and in the management of the transportation infrastructure. We propose a new method for detecting traffic events that impact road traffic conditions by extending the Bayesian robust principal component analysis (RPCA) approach. Our method couples multiple traffic datastreams so that they share a certain sparse structure. This sparse structure is used to localize traffic events in space and time. The traffic datastreams are measurements of different physical quantities (e.g., traffic flow and road occupancy) by different nearby sensors. Our proposed method processes datastreams in an incremental way with small computational cost; hence, it is suitable to detect events in an online and real-time manner. We experimentally analyze the detection performance of the proposed coupled Bayesian RPCA (BRPCA) using real data from loop detectors on the Minnesota I-494. We find that our method significantly improves the detection accuracy when compared with the traditional PCA and noncoupled BRPCA.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/TITS.2014.2305334
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
nonparametric bayesian method,multivariable data streams,road occupancy,road traffic event detection,robust principal component analysis,bayes methods,road accidents,minnesota i-494,traffic engineering computing,bayesian,bayesian robust principal component analysis approach,transportation infrastructure management,road traffic sensors,traffic event localization,traffic flow,image sensors,object detection,data handling,road traffic,rpca,coupling,principal component analysis,multiple timeseries coupling,datastream,road traffic conditions,time series,traffic events,bayes theorem,sensors
Data mining,Time series,Multivariable calculus,Traffic flow,Simulation,Floating car data,Robust principal component analysis,Engineering,Detector,Bayes' theorem,Bayesian probability
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
15
5
1524-9050
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.50
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shiming Yang1132.15
Konstantinos Kalpakis258543.43
Alain Biem328818.64