TY - GEN
T1 - Estimating fuel consumption and emissions via traffic data from mobile sensors
AU - Piccoli, Benedetto
AU - Han, Ke
AU - Friesz, Terry L.
AU - Yao, Tao
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1109/Allerton.2013.6736562
DO - 10.1109/Allerton.2013.6736562
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84897712458
SN - 9781479934096
T3 - 2013 51st Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton 2013
SP - 472
EP - 477
BT - 2013 51st Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton 2013
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 51st Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton 2013
Y2 - 2 October 2013 through 4 October 2013
ER -