Estimating fuel consumption and emissions via traffic data from mobile sensors

Benedetto Piccoli, Ke Han, Terry L. Friesz, Tao Yao

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Abstract

Mobile sensing enabled by on-board GPS or smart phones has become the primary source of traffic data. For sufficient coverage of the traffic stream, it is important to maintain a reasonable penetration rate of probe vehicles. From the standpoint of estimating higher-order traffic quantities such as acceleration/deceleration, emission rate and fuel consumption rate, it is desirable to examine the effectiveness of sampling frequency of current sensing technology in capturing higher-order variations inherent in traffic stream. Of the two concerns raised above, the latter is rarely studied in the literature. In this paper, we study the two characteristics of mobile sensing: penetration rate and sampling frequency, and their impacts on the quality of traffic estimation. We utilize a second-order hydrodynamic model known as the phase transition model [Colombo, 2002a] and the Next Generation SIMulation [NGSIM, 2006] dataset containing high time-resolution vehicle trajectories. It is demonstrate through extensive numerical study that while first-order traffic quantities can be accurately estimated using prevailing sampling frequency at a reasonably low penetration rate, higher-order traffic quantities tend to be misinterpreted due to insufficient sampling frequency of current mobile devices. We propose, for estimating emission and fuel consumption rates, a correction factor approach which is proven to yield improved accuracy via statistical validation.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2013 51st Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton 2013
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages472-477
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9781479934096
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event51st Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton 2013 - Monticello, IL, United States
Duration: Oct 2 2013Oct 4 2013

Publication series

Name2013 51st Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton 2013

Other

Other51st Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityMonticello, IL
Period10/2/1310/4/13

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Control and Systems Engineering

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