Abstract
Current transportation management systems rely on physical sensors that use traffic volume and queue-lengths. These physical sensors incur significant capital and maintenance costs. The ubiquity of mobile devices has made possible access to accurate and cheap traffic delay data. However, current traffic signal control algorithms do not accommodate the use of such data. In this paper, we propose a novel parsimonious model to utilize real-time crowdsourced delay data for traffic signal management. We demonstrate the versatility and effectiveness of the data and the proposed model on seven different intersections across three cities and two countries. This signal system provides an opportunity to leapfrog from physical sensors to low-cost, reliable crowdsourced data.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | e0230598 |
| Journal | PloS one |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| State | Published - 2020 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:V. Dixit, no grant number, Thane Municipal Corporation, V. Dixit, no grant number, Institute of Road Engineering, no URL available M. W. Levin, 1935514, National Science Foundation, https://www.nsf.gov/ The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright: © 2020 Dixit et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
