This article presents a visual application which allows a study and analysis of traffic behavior on major roads (more specifically freeways and highways), using as the main surveillance artefact a video camera mounted on a relatively high place (such as a bridge) with a significant image analysis field. The system described presents something new which is the combination of both traditional tra...

Tra c simulations are made more realistic by giving individual drivers intentions, i.e., an idea of where they want to go. One possible implementation of this idea is to give each driver an exact pre-computed path, that is, a sequence of roads this driver wants to follow. This paper shows, in a realistic road network, how repeated simulations can be used so that drivers can explore di erent pat...

F the past 20 years weaving segments have been analyzed and designed using the methodologies and procedures provided in the 1965 Highway Capacity Manual (HCM).’ With the increase in urban growth in the mid-1960s, it was quickly realized that the procedures provided in the 1965 HCM for the analysis and design of weaving segments were in need of a critical review. In 1969 the National Cooperative...

We undertook a study to determine if the automatic detection and counting of vehicle passengers is feasible. An automated passenger counting system would greatly facilitate the operation of freeway lanes reserved for car-pools (HOV lanes). In the present paper we report our findings regarding the appropriate sensor phenomenology and arrangement for the task. We propose a novel system based on f...

The BATMobile [1] is one approach to the implementation of a system capable of driving autonomously in normal highway tra c. As with human drivers, the BATMobile would be a superior driver if it were able to make predictions about the actions of other drivers, e ectively giving it the ability to respond before such actions even occur. The ability to predict driver behavior would also be helpful...

A. Talebian, S. S. Kordestani, A. Rashidi, F. Dadashian, and M. Montazer a Islamic Azad University, Shahre Rey Branch, Faculty of Technical Engineering, Textile Dep., b Tehran-Qom freeway, Tehran, Iran b Amir Kabir University of Technology, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Hafez st., Tehran, Iran c Islamic Azad University, Science-Research Branch, Faculty of Technical Engineering, Textile Lab...