Highway Traffic Monitoring and Data Quality (Artech House Intelligent Transportation Systems Library)

Dalgleish, Michael; Hoose, Neil

ISBN 10: 1580537154 / ISBN 13: 9781580537155

Published by Artech House Publishers, Boston, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Highway Traffic Monitoring and Data Quality (Artech House Intelligent Transportation Systems Library)
• Publisher: Artech House Publishers, Boston
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1580537154
• ISBN 13: 9781580537155
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Computer Studies & Technology

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Neil Hoose is a professor at the Centre for Transport Studies at Imperial College, London and president of Bittern Consulting Ltd, a traffic management consulting firm in Banbury, UK. He earned both his M.Sc. in transport and Ph.D. in traffic engineering at the University of London, UK.

Michael Dalgleish is a director at Wired Asset Ltd., Boars Hill, Oxford, UK. He has over 30 years of ITS and traffic detection systems experience and was formerly founder and managing director of Golden River Traffic Ltd, a world leader in traffic management systems.