Research progress and prospect of UAV applications in transportation information collection

PENG Zhong-ren; LIU Xiao-feng; ZHANG Li-ye; SUN Jian

doi:10.19818/j.cnki.1671-1637.2012.06.018

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PENG Zhong-ren, LIU Xiao-feng, ZHANG Li-ye, SUN Jian. Research progress and prospect of UAV applications in transportation information collection[J]. Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, 2012, 12(6): 119-126. doi: 10.19818/j.cnki.1671-1637.2012.06.018

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PENG Zhong-ren, LIU Xiao-feng, ZHANG Li-ye, SUN Jian. Research progress and prospect of UAV applications in transportation information collection[J]. Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, 2012, 12(6): 119-126. doi: 10.19818/j.cnki.1671-1637.2012.06.018

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Research progress and prospect of UAV applications in transportation information collection

doi: 10.19818/j.cnki.1671-1637.2012.06.018

PENG Zhong-ren^{1, 2, 3
,},
LIU Xiao-feng⁴,
ZHANG Li-ye⁴,
SUN Jian^{1, 2}

1.
State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200240, China
2.
Research center for Intelligent Transportation System and UAV Application, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200240, China
3.
Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Florida, Gainesville 32611, USA
4.
School of Transportation Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China

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PENG Zhong-ren(1963-), male, professor, PhD, +86-21-69583695, zrpeng@sjtu.edu.cn
Received Date: 2012-08-30
Publish Date: 2012-12-25

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Based on the flight tests and subsequent studies of unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV), the opportunities and challenges of UAV in traffic information collection, processing and application were analyzed, and the application future of UAV in traffic planning and simulation, road surveillance, emergency dispatch, urban congestion analysis and so on was prospected. Analysis result shows that the traffic information collection method using UAV is effective for continuous traffic information collection and complements existing methods. Traffic information is automatically derived from UAV videos with the development of dynamic video processing technology. UAV traffic information can be used to study emergency responses, car-following, lane-changing behavior, traffic congestion and so on. However, the adaptability of UAV dynamic video processing technology needs to be improved. The research on car-following, lane-changing and traffic congestion using UAV information needs empirical testing. Some important research direction in the future includes the establishment of UAV-ground emergency communication and coordination system, and UAV-vehicle-road coordination communication system.
- traffic information collection,
- unmanned aerial vehicle,
- information fusion,
- image recognition,
- geographic information system

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