Title
Characterization of vehicle behavior with information theory
Abstract
This work proposes the use of Information Theory for the characterization of vehicles behavior through their velocities. Three public data sets were used: (i) Mobile Century data set collected on Highway I-880, near Union City, California; (ii) Borlange GPS data set collected in the Swedish city of Borlange; and (iii) Beijing taxicabs data set collected in Beijing, China, where each vehicle speed is stored as a time series. The Bandt-Pompe methodology combined with the Complexity-Entropy plane were used to identify different regimes and behaviors. The global velocity is compatible with a correlated noise with f − k Power Spectrum with k ≥ 0. With this we identify traffic behaviors as, for instance, random velocities (k ≃ 0) when there is congestion, and more correlated velocities (k ≃ 3) in the presence of free traffic flow. Copyright EDP Sciences, SIF, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1140/epjb/e2015-60384-x
European Physical Journal B
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Journal
abs/1510.04210
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
10
1434-6036
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
5
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
André Luiz Lins Aquino161.55
Tamer Cavalcante251.55
Eliana S. Almeida310.69
Alejandro C. Frery436838.29
Osvaldo A. Rosso55813.07