scholarly journals Advanced Fuzzy-Logic-Based Traffic Incident Detection Algorithm

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Changhong Zhu ◽  
Zhenjun Guo ◽  
Jie Ke

This study demonstrates an incident detection algorithm that uses the meteorological and traffic parameters for improving the poor performance of the automatic incident detection (AID) algorithms under extreme weather conditions and for efficiently using the meteorological devices on advanced freeways. This algorithm comprises an incident detection module that is based on learning vector quantization (LVQ) and a meteorological influencing factor module. Field data are obtained from the Yuwu freeway in Chongqing, China, to verify the algorithm. Further, the performance of this algorithm is evaluated using commonly used criteria such as mean time to detection (MTTD), false alarm rate (FAR), and detection rate (DR). Initially, an experiment is conducted for selecting the algorithm architecture that yields the optimal detection performance. Additionally, a comparative experiment is performed using the California algorithm, exponential smoothing algorithm, standard normal deviation algorithm, and McMaster algorithm. The experimental results demonstrate that the algorithm proposed in this study is characterized by high DR, low FAR, and considerable suitability for applications in AID.

2013 ◽  
Vol 650 ◽  
pp. 460-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lan Bai ◽  
Qi Sheng Wu ◽  
Mei Yang ◽  
Lan Xin Wei ◽  
Bo Li ◽  
...  

Traffic incident detection is critical to the core of the traffic incident management process. In order to study the highway traffic incident detection algorithm and the layout spacing of the fixed detector, under the assumptions of the linear traffic flow, to detect traffic incidents as the goal, using TransModeler traffic simulation software to simulate the highway traffic conditions from Xian to Hanzhong, getting the changes in the macroscopic traffic parameters before and after the traffic incident, and analysis of the data, finally puts forward the optimal layout of spacing of basic road traffic incident detection.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
YunFeng Fang ◽  
Qingfang Yang ◽  
Lili Zheng ◽  
Xiangyu Zhou ◽  
Bo Peng

In Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and other cities in China, traffic congestion caused by traffic incidents also accounts for 50% to 75% of the total traffic congestion on expressways. Therefore, it is of great significance to study an accurate and timely automatic traffic incident detection algorithm for ensuring the operation efficiency of expressways and improving the level of road safety. At present, many effective automatic event detection algorithms have been proposed, but the existing algorithms usually take the original traffic flow parameters as input variables, ignoring the construction of feature variable sets and the screening of important feature variables. This paper presents an automatic event detection algorithm based on deep cycle limit learning machine. The traffic flow, speed, and occupancy of downstream urban expressway are extracted as input values of the deep-loop neural network. The initial connection weights and output thresholds of the deep-loop neural network are optimized by using the improved particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm for global search. The higher classification accuracy of the extreme learning machine is trained, and the generalization performance of the extreme learning machine is improved. In addition, the extreme learning machine is used as a learning unit for unsupervised learning layer by layer. Finally, the microwave detector data of Tangqiao viaduct in Hangzhou are used to verify the experiment and compared with LSTM, CNN, gradient-enhanced regression tree, SVM, BPNN, and other methods. The results show that the algorithm can transfer low-level features layer by layer to form a more complete feature representation, retaining more original input information. It can save expensive computing resources and reduce the complexity of the model. Moreover, the detection accuracy of the algorithm is high, the detection rate is higher than 98%, and the false alarm rate is lower than 3%. It is better than LSTM, CNN, gradient-enhanced regression tree, and other algorithms. It is suitable for urban expressway traffic incident detection.


2008 ◽  
Vol 28 (7) ◽  
pp. 1886-1889 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qin WANG ◽  
Shan HUANG ◽  
Hong-bin ZHANG ◽  
Quan YANG ◽  
Jian-jun ZHANG

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 172988142110087
Author(s):  
Qiao Huang ◽  
Jinlong Liu

The vision-based road lane detection technique plays a key role in driver assistance system. While existing lane recognition algorithms demonstrated over 90% detection rate, the validation test was usually conducted on limited scenarios. Significant gaps still exist when applied in real-life autonomous driving. The goal of this article was to identify these gaps and to suggest research directions that can bridge them. The straight lane detection algorithm based on linear Hough transform (HT) was used in this study as an example to evaluate the possible perception issues under challenging scenarios, including various road types, different weather conditions and shades, changed lighting conditions, and so on. The study found that the HT-based algorithm presented an acceptable detection rate in simple backgrounds, such as driving on a highway or conditions showing distinguishable contrast between lane boundaries and their surroundings. However, it failed to recognize road dividing lines under varied lighting conditions. The failure was attributed to the binarization process failing to extract lane features before detections. In addition, the existing HT-based algorithm would be interfered by lane-like interferences, such as guardrails, railways, bikeways, utility poles, pedestrian sidewalks, buildings and so on. Overall, all these findings support the need for further improvements of current road lane detection algorithms to be robust against interference and illumination variations. Moreover, the widely used algorithm has the potential to raise the lane boundary detection rate if an appropriate search range restriction and illumination classification process is added.


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