TE-467

Traffic Engineering-II

Group Members:

Hamza Saleem 2017-TE-25

Ammar Asad 2017-TE-26
Hassan Sajid 2017-TE-27

Submitted to:
Dr. Izza Anwar
Lab No:
07
UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY, LAHORE
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING &
MANAGEMENT
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Lab # 07:
Method used for traffic count (composition, classification, types of vehicle, their
related features and attributes, turning tendencies etc.), worldwide practices?
Each student should do any 5-journal paper (recent 5 year).
Method
Analysis
Year, Name Author of of Tool/ Sample
Location Data type method Limitation Recommendation Pros & Cons
of journal journal data Instrument size
/software used
collection

Inductive
Loop
Detectors,
Assists in planning, engineering, traffic
Weigh-in-
2014, trend forecasting and statewide estimation
Minnesota Automated Motion Complexity is
Collecting and Traffic Passive acoustic of vehicle miles traveled
Department Traffic Sensors and asscoaited with the Analysis Models should be
Managing Count/ Minnesota, AADT & and microwave
of Recorder trailer- operation and based on simplistic Setting up and Calibiration of different
Traffic Data 4500 USA VMT models/ARC-
Transportat Sites & deployed development of mainframe principles
on Local Vehicles GIS types of detectors is considered to be
ion Stations nonintrusive analysis models difficult along the same segment of road
Roads
traffic under observation
detector,
Acoustic
Sensors

S. Vasantha
2015, Study of Morning & evening peak hour traffic
Kumar, Video Traffic
Traffic Flow 10,000 Consider all volume is determined
P. surveys SONY Vellore, volume Growth rate Use high resolution camera
at a Three Passenger vehicles into
Dhanalaksh method Handycam India count analysis for more data accuracy
Legged Busy Car unit equivalent PCUs Human error in analyzing the data by
mi, used Model split videos
Intersection
K. Settu
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2020, A traffic Huan

Wang, Min pneumatic
data collection vehicle flow Chaos algorithm is use in traffic flow data
Ouyang, Qi road tubes,
and analysis wireless and speed incremental noise cannot record the Implementation of more processing, and chaotic identification is
ngyuan induction No sample
method based sensor NA based on addition for speed and location advance mathematical models the premise of chaotic analysis
Meng & Qi loop, and size
on wireless network vehicle traffic flow data of vehicles for estimation & aanalysis
an Kong piezoelectric Required complex network to deal with it
sensor disturbances
sensors
network

2018, A
review paper Abrar Ul Manual Majri Chowk A few person are required to collect traffic
Traffic Considered all types Suggesting the means to counts
on study of Haq Bhat, traffic 1000 to Ramgarh Traffic flow
NA volume, of vehicles as one, reduce the congestion on the
traffic flow Dr. Rakesh count by vehicles National Paremeters Slow process of manually counting the
ADT, AADT No modal split highway.
and it's safety Gupta survey Highway traffic
measures

Michael Manually Time Mark 1000 Traffic

2014, Traffic Quantitative
Marti, Controlled traffic vehicles/ 700 Volume Human associated Digital record keeping should Better local knowledge of the roads
Data Analysis based
Renae Continuous Counters, Hours Minnesota, Monitoring, errors and time be implmented alongwith
Collection on data obtained
Kuehl, & Seasonal pneumatic 168 Traffic USA Count consuming technically sound and skilled lack of technical expertise/experience with
Processes from traffic traffic counting
Scott Counter tubes, Clamps Counter & Vehicle approach staff
Study counters
Petersen Stations & Data Cards Stations Model Split

years of use and

improvements,
fixed sensors
Pneumatic technologies (e.g.
road tubes, inductive loops)
2008, Road Better local knowledge of the roads
Piezoelectric
traffic data In-Situ Floating car High experience and high
sensors, 1081 are mature and Expensive to install Additional need for counting equipment to
collection G. Leduc technologie Europe data, GPS accuracy is required
Magnetic Vehicles well recognised and maintain
method and s based FCD otherwise it not work well. cover such extensive data collection
loops, to provide sectors
applications
Microwave precise and
radar relevant data on
the current

traffic situation

2012, An Empirical Error can be This method is widely use to classify the
Pengjun Accuracy of the loop is just errors in the traffic data count
Investigation observation Computer calculated by using
Zhenga, Not Changsha, Traffic at the verge of the
on the Manual and Telly sheets Controlled VCR empirical equations
McDonad mentioned China counts contractual assessment Counting errors are less than 1%
Traffic Count quantificati logger in a certain
Mike requirements Classification errors are significant, with
Accuracy on of errors condition an average between 4-5%
in manual
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traffic
counting

Pneumatic Linear
365 Days Traffic
Road Tubes, Regression
2008, Road Automotive Data Volume Improved Dynamic network traffic control
Piezoelectric Spain & Analysis, software difficulties
Traffic Data: Vehicle Collection, Counts, Implementation of more
Guillaume Sensors & other Factoring occur in practice The system mentioned in the research
Collection Identificati Vehicle Vehicle advance mathematical models
Leduc Magnetic European Method, Genetic leading to less than
Methods and on Sample Size Classificatio for estimation & aanalysis paper requires extensive finances
Loop Union States Algorithms & complete datasets and is moderately cost-effective
Applications Techniques Not n, AADT &
Detectors, Neural
Mentioned VKT
GPS Networking

2012, traffic trend forecasting and statewide

MnDOT Collection of data
Collecting and Department Manually traffic estimation of vehicle miles traveled
collects by local surveys my Surveys to collect traffic
Managing of Surveys on 4500 MnDOT counting method
Surveys traffic data require a loos of requires a lot of efficiency
Traffic Data Transportat local sites Vehicles district is adopted to Setting up and Calibiration of different
on its trunk data in high density and time.
on Local ion collect data. types of detectors is considered to be
highways areas. difficult along the same segment of road
Roads

2016, With Peak hour factor and Traffic rate

Sitesh In calculating traffic
Multimodal Video 1081 Traffic flow Use traffic Paremeters flow index, future Congestion is
Kumar Traffic flow paremeters،
Interpretation photograph Vehicles paremeters calculation softwares to estimated easily
Singh, Video camera Punjab, India count, modal Directional split of
and Analysis y mode and or 758.2 equations and estimate future flow more
Ankit split vehicles is not This data is based on empirical equations
of Traffic data sheet PCUs conversion accurately
Bansal considered so the actual results may vary
Survey Data

Continuous Counter Stations enabled

2012, David T.
Manually extended time frame for traffic counts
Streamlining Hartgen Centralized Recorded data is
Controlled Traffic Data obtained
Collection and And John master file 10,600 New York, often misinterpreted Incorporating automated Manually operated systems lacks
Continuous Volume from permanent
Processing of H. & Telly Count Vehicles USA due to human traffic counters conviction and involves considerate level
Counter Count counting stations
Traffic Count Lemmerma Sheets parallex error
Stations of errors alongwith it requires extensive
Statistics n
labour

2020, A
survey of road
Reflect the real level of
traffic data
Manual service for any road types, Can count and analyze traffic data with
counts Empirical
Tanzia traffic Traffic count Data may be missed Consider different system accuracy of 99%
measure Sensor and 20,000 North, equations for
affrin counts and and signal sometimes due to performances, such as travel
towards a loop detectors vehicles Fargo, USA traffic paremeters
Nita Yodo loop timings human errors time and speed, Limited for a specific
sustainable calculations road type
detectors Provide a continuous range of
and resilient
values,
transportation
system
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2018, A commercial
combined use microscopic As stated earlier, some To reduce the bias, data were reviewed by
four trained observers and professionals
of Ten urban simulation Fundamental Thus, they are not automated video techniques
microscopic Chen intersections package data were directly comparable have been already developed repeatedly. Moreover, the inter-reliability
Manual video and intra-reliability were examined for
traffic Wang, was selected Nanjing, VISSIM was obtained from to crash frequency, to reduce labor and collection
traffic cameras, those observers.
simulation and Chengchen in Fengxian China used to the Fengxian no matter being errors. Thus, a widely
count video studio
extreme value g Xu District in develop Traffic Police simulation-based or recognized automated video It should be admitted that such method
methods for Shanghai simulation Department field-based algorithm should be
could still be time-consuming and
traffic safety models for considered in the future. inaccurate
evaluation each
intersection

One advantage of using regression

analysis is that the vehicle boundary
2015, Mingpei Boundary estimation is not required and the counting
Counting and Liang, estimation could be problem can be addressed directly,
Traffic count
Classification Xinyu Traffic 70-minutes considered as a Put light on highway so Prediction can be made in real time
on based of regression
of Highway Huang, Ch count Video camera. videos, No NC, USA more difficult traffic can be counted during
their analysis
Vehicles by ung-Hao manually sample size problem than the nighttime our algorithm still cannot handle many
calssification
Regression Chen, Xin vehicle counting different weather conditions, such as the
Analysis Chen, itself “transition” weather condition

Weather and Traffic counts can be recorded for

High Frame
2012, Feature Based lighting conditions, 360° Rotatable Night vision prolonged periods with considerate
Automated Rate Video
Automated CJ Taylor, Traffic Tracking Variety of cameras with better low light accuracy
Video Cameras & Pennsylvania
Video-Based Yuting 100 Vehicles Count & Algorithm/ movement, Large sensors should be used to
Based Vehicle , USA This system is equipped with limited
Traffic Count Yang Model Split AutoDesk 3DS perspective counteract the movement and
Surveys Detection
Analysis Max deformation and lighting deficiencies coverage sets and angles making it
Systems suitable for minor routes/roads only
occlusion