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Title:

A Comprehensive Overview of Improving Traffic Flow Observability Using UAVs as Mobile Sensors

Accession Number:

01658947

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become a promising topic in many research areas. Applications based on UAV technologies are ranging from traffic surveillance to event observation. This paper is a comprehensive overview for using small UAVs on traffic monitoring to improve traffic flow observability. The existing efforts are mainly choosing quadrotors as a source of raw data because a quadrotor can accurately and efficiently perform tasks that would be of high risk for a human pilot to perform. However, there are some issues on applying quadrotors in data collection such as battery limitation, instability, data transmission, and flight altitude. This paper discusses current limitations and challenges of collecting traffic data using UAVs. This paper also demonstrates an experimental trial in 2017 to show the UAV data collection process along a corridor. Lastly, the paper investigates the potential methods to detect traffic objects using UAV videos.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABJ50 Standing Committee on Information Systems and Technology.

Report/Paper Numbers:

18-04949

Language:

English

Authors:

Zhao, Shuaidong
Zhang, Kuilin
Brooks, Colin
Banach, David
Aden, Sam

Pagination:

16p

Publication Date:

2018

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2018-1-7 to 2018-1-11
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Photos; References

Subject Areas:

Aviation; Data and Information Technology; Highways; Vehicles and Equipment

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2018 Paper #18-04949

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 8 2018 11:14AM