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Title:

Evaluation of Wrong-Way Driving (WWD) Detection Proof of Concept

Accession Number:

01763985

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Wrong-way driving (WWD) incidents often result in one of the most serious types of crashes to occur on interstate highways, often resulting in fatalities. According to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), 300 to 400 fatalities are caused annually by wrong-way driving in the United States. Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) Region 1 (R1) conducted a pilot study to explore different types of available WWD detection technologies for interstate off-ramps to evaluate which system was most accurate in detecting wrong-way vehicles in a variety of different weather conditions. The pilot study evaluated multiple different wrong-way detection systems: one video camera, one radar, and two different thermal cameras at Interstate 70 and Ward Road. The WWD detection system vendors were responsible to install, maintain, and operate the required communications systems and to send an alert via email to the project team whenever a WWD vehicle is detected. All system vendors opted for cellular communications to send the alerts. For this study, no additional infrastructure such as a LED beacon was installed to alert the wrong-way driver. Two systems were found to have similarly high odds ratios in detecting wrong-way vehicles. These two systems were found to be superior in both daytime and nighttime conditions, which did not impact the accuracy of these two detection systems.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ACP15 Standing Committee on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

Report/Paper Numbers:

TRBAM-21-00245

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

Authors:

Sabawat, Vijay
Marlina, Susi
Stamp, Alvin
Janson, Bruce N

Pagination:

23p

Publication Date:

2021

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 100th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2021-1-5 to 2021-1-29
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board; Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Photos; References; Tables

Subject Areas:

Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2021 Paper #TRBAM-21-00245

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 23 2020 11:17AM