scholarly journals Dynamic All-Red Signal Control Based on Deep Neural Network Considering Red Light Runner Characteristics

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (17) ◽  
pp. 6050
Author(s):  
Seong Kyung Kwon ◽  
Hojin Jung ◽  
Kyoung-Dae Kim

Despite recent advances in technologies for intelligent transportation systems, the safety of intersection traffic is still threatened by traffic signal violation, called the Red Light Runner (RLR). The conventional approach to ensure the intersection safety under the threat of an RLR is to extend the length of the all-red signal when an RLR is detected. Therefore, the selection of all-red signal length is an important factor for intersection safety as well as traffic efficiency. In this paper, for better safety and efficiency of intersection traffic, we propose a framework for dynamic all-red signal control that adjusts the length of all-red signal time according to the driving characteristics of the detected RLR. In this work, we define RLRs into four different classes based on the clustering results using the Dynamic Time Wrapping (DTW) and the Hierarchical Clustering Analysis (HCA). The proposed system uses a Multi-Channel Deep Convolutional Neural Network (MC-DCNN) for online detection of RLR and also classification of RLR class. For dynamic all-red signal control, the proposed system uses a multi-level regression model to estimate the necessary all-red signal extension time more accurately and hence improves the overall intersection traffic safety as well as efficiency.

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (20) ◽  
pp. 5818
Author(s):  
Zhi Dong ◽  
Bobin Yao

In future intelligent vehicle-infrastructure cooperation frameworks, accurate self-positioning is an important prerequisite for better driving environment evaluation (e.g., traffic safety and traffic efficiency). We herein describe a joint cooperative positioning and warning (JCPW) system based on angle information. In this system, we first design the sequential task allocation of cooperative positioning (CP) warning and the related frame format of the positioning packet. With the cooperation of RSUs, multiple groups of the two-dimensional angle-of-departure (AOD) are estimated and then transformed into the vehicle’s positions. Considering the system computational efficiency, a novel AOD estimation algorithm based on a truncated signal subspace is proposed, which can avoid the eigen decomposition and exhaustive spectrum searching; and a distance based weighting strategy is also utilized to fuse multiple independent estimations. Numerical simulations prove that the proposed method can be a better alternative to achieve sub-lane level positioning if considering the accuracy and computational complexity.


2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 12-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hua Wei ◽  
Guanjie Zheng ◽  
Vikash Gayah ◽  
Zhenhui Li

Traffic signal control is an important and challenging real-world problem that has recently received a large amount of interest from both transportation and computer science communities. In this survey, we focus on investigating the recent advances in using reinforcement learning (RL) techniques to solve the traffic signal control problem. We classify the known approaches based on the RL techniques they use and provide a review of existing models with analysis on their advantages and disadvantages. Moreover, we give an overview of the simulation environments and experimental settings that have been developed to evaluate the traffic signal control methods. Finally, we explore future directions in the area of RLbased traffic signal control methods. We hope this survey could provide insights to researchers dealing with real-world applications in intelligent transportation systems


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 3059
Author(s):  
Myeong-Hun Jeong ◽  
Tae-Young Lee ◽  
Seung-Bae Jeon ◽  
Minkyo Youm

Movement analytics and mobility insights play a crucial role in urban planning and transportation management. The plethora of mobility data sources, such as GPS trajectories, poses new challenges and opportunities for understanding and predicting movement patterns. In this study, we predict highway speed using a gated recurrent unit (GRU) neural network. Based on statistical models, previous approaches suffer from the inherited features of traffic data, such as nonlinear problems. The proposed method predicts highway speed based on the GRU method after training on digital tachograph data (DTG). The DTG data were recorded in one month, giving approximately 300 million records. These data included the velocity and locations of vehicles on the highway. Experimental results demonstrate that the GRU-based deep learning approach outperformed the state-of-the-art alternatives, the autoregressive integrated moving average model, and the long short-term neural network (LSTM) model, in terms of prediction accuracy. Further, the computational cost of the GRU model was lower than that of the LSTM. The proposed method can be applied to traffic prediction and intelligent transportation systems.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (20) ◽  
pp. 8443
Author(s):  
Ramon Sanchez-Iborra ◽  
Luis Bernal-Escobedo ◽  
José Santa

Cooperative-Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITS) have brought a technological revolution, especially for ground vehicles, in terms of road safety, traffic efficiency, as well as in the experience of drivers and passengers. So far, these advances have been focused on traditional transportation means, leaving aside the new generation of personal vehicles that are nowadays flooding our streets. Together with bicycles and motorcycles, personal mobility devices such as segways or electric scooters are firm sustainable alternatives that represent the future to achieve eco-friendly personal mobility in urban settings. In a near future, smart cities will become hyper-connected spaces where these vehicles should be integrated within the underlying C-ITS ecosystem. In this paper, we provide a wide overview of the opportunities and challenges related to this necessary integration as well as the communication solutions that are already in the market to provide these moving devices with low-cost and efficient connectivity. We also present an On-Board Unit (OBU) prototype with different communication options based on the Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) paradigm and several sensors to gather environmental information to facilitate eco-efficiency services. As the attained results suggest, this module allows personal vehicles to be fully integrated in smart city environments, presenting the possibilities of LoRaWAN and Narrow Band-Internet of Things (NB-IoT) communication technologies to provide vehicle connectivity and enable mobile urban sensing.


Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (10) ◽  
pp. 2229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sen Zhang ◽  
Yong Yao ◽  
Jie Hu ◽  
Yong Zhao ◽  
Shaobo Li ◽  
...  

Traffic congestion prediction is critical for implementing intelligent transportation systems for improving the efficiency and capacity of transportation networks. However, despite its importance, traffic congestion prediction is severely less investigated compared to traffic flow prediction, which is partially due to the severe lack of large-scale high-quality traffic congestion data and advanced algorithms. This paper proposes an accessible and general workflow to acquire large-scale traffic congestion data and to create traffic congestion datasets based on image analysis. With this workflow we create a dataset named Seattle Area Traffic Congestion Status (SATCS) based on traffic congestion map snapshots from a publicly available online traffic service provider Washington State Department of Transportation. We then propose a deep autoencoder-based neural network model with symmetrical layers for the encoder and the decoder to learn temporal correlations of a transportation network and predicting traffic congestion. Our experimental results on the SATCS dataset show that the proposed DCPN model can efficiently and effectively learn temporal relationships of congestion levels of the transportation network for traffic congestion forecasting. Our method outperforms two other state-of-the-art neural network models in prediction performance, generalization capability, and computation efficiency.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.36) ◽  
pp. 350
Author(s):  
Mohammed Saad Talib ◽  
Aslinda Hassan ◽  
Burairah Hussin ◽  
Ali Abdul-Jabbar Mohammed ◽  
Ali Abdulhussian Hassan ◽  
...  

the numbers of accidents are increasing in an exponential manner with the growing of vehicles numbers on roads in recent years.  This huge number of vehicles increases the traffic congestion rates. Therefore, new technologies are so important to reduce the victims in the roads and improve the traffic safety. The Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) represents an emerging technology to improve the road's safety and traffic efficiency. ITS have various safety and not safety applications. Numerous methods are intended to develop the smart transport systems. The crucial form is the Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANET). VANET is becoming the most common network in ITS. It confirms human’s safety on streets by dissemination protection messages among vehicles. Optimizing the traffic management operations represent an urgent issue in this era a according to the massive growing in number of circulating vehicles, traffic congestions and road accidents. Street congestions can have significant negative impact on the life quality, passenger's safety, daily activities, economic and environmental for citizens and organizations. Current progresses in communication and computing paradigms fetched the improvement of inclusive intelligent devices equipped with wireless communication capability and high efficiency processors.  


2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farid Amirouche ◽  
Khurram Mahmudi ◽  
David Zavattero

This paper addresses the issues faced by local and state governments concerning increasing traffic congestions, inadequate roadway design and traffic safety problems caused by the freight truck traffic; on the other hand, the freight industry is seeking to improve productivity by having easy access and direct routes between the intermodal facilities and the interstate highway system.


2021 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 1161-1169
Author(s):  
Veeramosu Priyanka Brahmaiah ◽  
Yarlagadda Padma Sai ◽  
Mahendra N. Giri Prasad

Epileptic seizure is one which affects the normal brain activities of human being and considered to be a risky disease. The eye ball movement signals pattern plays a significant role in determining the epileptic seizure in precise manner. In addition to it, EOG signals has its influence in detecting epileptic seizure through assessment of eye ball movement signals precisely. Detecting Epilepsy using genetical based Convolutional Neural Network plays a major role in the previous research works. Conversely, the existence of background noise on eye ball signals may impact on the outcome failure. Noise aware Epileptic Seizure Detection using Thirteen Layer Convolution Neural Network (NESD-TLCNN) is adopted in this research to mitigate this issue and thereby ensuring the prediction rate more precisely. Furthermore, Hybrid Dynamic Time Wrapping based Hidden Markov Model (HDWT-HMM) is greatly utilized for primary background noise detection and removal by estimating the noise depending on distance metric. Once after the completion of noise estimation, perfect detection of epileptic seizure is accomplished using feature extraction. The peculiar features involved are saccade, fixation and blink features. Subsequently, Particle swarm optimization (PSO) technique is also involved in this research for optimal feature selection. Thirteen Layer Convolution Neural Network (TLCNN) is applied at last for learning and differentiation of epileptic seizure from the normal eyes. This research is being carried out in MATLAB platform which also reveals that the anticipated methodology produces improved outcomes when contrasted with the existing research work.


Author(s):  
Keyvan Kasiri ◽  
Mohammad Javad Shafiee ◽  
Francis Li ◽  
Alexander Wong ◽  
Justin Eichel

With the progress in intelligent transportation systems in smartcities, vision-based vehicle detection is becoming an important issuein the vision-based surveillance systems. With the advent ofthe big data era, deep learning methods have been increasinglyemployed in the detection, classification, and recognition applicationsdue to their performance accuracy, however, there are stillmajor concerns regarding deployment of such methods in embeddedapplications. This paper offers an efficient process leveragingthe idea of evolutionary deep intelligence on a state-of-the-art deepneural network. Using this approach, the deep neural network isevolved towards a highly sparse set of synaptic weights and clusters.Experimental results for the task of vehicle detection demonstratethat the evolved deep neural network can achieve a substantialimprovement in architecture efficiency adapting for GPUacceleratedapplications without significant sacrifices in detectionaccuracy. The architectural efficiency of ~4X-fold and ~2X-folddecrease is obtained in synaptic weights and clusters, respectively,while the accuracy of 92.8% (drop of less than 4% compared to theoriginal network model) is achieved. Detection results and networkefficiency for the vehicular application are promising, and opensthe door to a wider range of applications in deep learning.


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