Highway Traffic Monitoring and Data Quality

Michael Dalgleish, Neil Hoose (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

260 Seiten

2008 | Unabridged edition
Artech House Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-58053-715-5 (ISBN)

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Increasingly sophisticated traffic monitoring and analysis tools are blazing new trails in traffic management, and this first-of-its-kind book provides one-stop access to them all. It describes the latest sensors, processors, and communication links and their applications in everything from vehicle counts to urban congestion measurement. Moreover, this authoritative book describes state-of-the-art statistical techniques that will help ITS (intelligent transportation system) professionals make the most of their traffic data collection and assessment efforts. This comprehensive volume provides full details on todays vehicle, traffic, and environmental sensors and their use in capturing vehicle speed, weight, occupancy, journey time, plate number, and other data. It describes methods of assessing equipment performance and reliability, including the evaluation of bias and precision. This practical book offers ITS professionals guidance on equipment selection, advice for solving data collection problems in the field, and quality control procedures for traffic data management.

Introduction. Statistics. Vehicle Counts. Speed Measurement. Length Measurement. Loop Occupancy. Vehicle Classification. Automatic Number Plate Reading. Assessment of Journey Time Systems. Vehicle Weight. Urban Congestion Measurement. Binning. Availability and Reliability. Data Validation and Patching. TM Station Verification and Validation. Sampling. Long-Term Data Collection. Errors. Factors Affecting Data Quality. Bias and Calibration. Metadata. FAQs. Test Procedure Outlines. Glossary.; To view complete TOC:; Click Google Preview button under book title above, then click on Contents tab.;

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.8.2008
Verlagsort	Norwood
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Datenbanken ► Data Warehouse / Data Mining
Themenwelt	Technik ► Bauwesen
ISBN-10	1-58053-715-4 / 1580537154
ISBN-13	978-1-58053-715-5 / 9781580537155
Zustand	Neuware