Conceptual Approach for Determining Penetration Rates for Dynamic Indirect Traffic Detection

Kurzfassung

An efficient traffic management requires current and area-wide traffic data. Today different systems exist on highways, main roads and major arteries for a comprehensive traffic collection. It is the goal of traffic authorities world-wide to obtain highly accurate spatialtemporal traffic data without installation of costly and deteriorating physically invasive infrastructure in inner-city and rural areas, too. Therefore, a novel approach for an efficient and low-cost large-scale traffic monitoring was presented in further proceedings, which augments the Floating Car Data (FCD) principles by an anonymous indirect detection of traffic objects (cars, cyclists, pedestrians) using cars which are equipped with specific radio-based Bluetooth/Wi-Fi receivers. By introducing a conceptual method the presented paper deliberates to the question how many equipped cars are required to derive dynamic high quality traffic information on the basis of this new approach.