Small UAVs for Traffic Surveillance: Experiences and Proposed Deployment

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Small UAVs for Traffic Surveillance
Experiences and Proposed Deployment

• Mark R. McCord
• The Ohio State University
• NCRST-Flows
• UCSB UAV Workshop
• 2 December 2003

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• NCRST-F Experiences
• Technology Application Partners
• GeoData Systems ADAS
• Moakley Center (with MLB)
• University Consortium
• Proposed Deployments

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GeoDATA Systems, Inc.Advanced Data Acquisition
System
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Moakley Center for Technological
Applications-Bridgewater MA
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Traffic Data Experiments Columbus, OH July 2003
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NCRST-FMLB and OSU
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OSU Northwest Campus

• Single freeway operations
• Queue surveillance
• Intersection turning movements
• Network path choice
• Parking lot utilization

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Single Freeway Operations
State Road 315
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Level of Service Analysis
LOS C
LOS C
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Average Annual Daily Traffic
SR 315 Section 1
SR 315 Section 2
Est. AADT 166,356
Est. AADT 118,894
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Reduced Ground Counts and Improved Accuracy with
Imagery
Empirical Errors in Converting Image-Based
Traffic Counts to AADT Estimates   Zhuojun
Jiang1,3, Mark McCord1, Prem Goel2, Ben
Coifman1   The Ohio State University 1Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering and
Geodetic Science 2Department of
Statistics   3Corresponding author 2796
Defiance Dr, Columbus, OH 43210 Phone
(614)-688-9390 Fax [phone] Email
jiang.91_at_osu.edu
  Estimating AADT from Satellite Imagery and Air
Photos Empirical Results     Mark R. McCord1,3,
Yongliang Yang1, Zhuojun Jiang1, Benjamin
Coifman1, Prem K. Goel2     The Ohio State
University 1Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering and Geodetic Science 2Departement of
Statistics   Transportation Research
Recored   in press, 2003  
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Queue Surveillance
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SR 315 and Lane Ave (NB SR 315)
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Lane Ave and Kenny Rd(WB Lane Ave)
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Turning Movements
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Lane Ave and Kenny Rd
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Network Path Choice
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Lane Ave and Kenny Rd
Fyffe Rd and Lane Ave
Kenny Rd and Woody Hayes Dr
Woody Hayes Dr and Fyffe Rd
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Parking Lot Utilization
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Buckeye Village
1.1Miles
1.2 Miles
Utilization of Parking Lots
Ohio Stadium
West Campus
1.1 Miles
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Observations
Low Altitude Surveillance
FAA and Police
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Other Observations

• Generated interest through presentations e.g.,
  turning movements
• Data outpacing information hardware outpacing
  software Get momentum with todays platforms
• Change in interest in past three years

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Proposed Deployments

• Vehicle and Facility Security (Larry Harman)
• Search and Rescue (Wash DOT)
• Two Priority Surveillance
• Priority 1 Incidence Verification, Response,
  Management, Documentation
• Priority 2 Traffic Studies

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Priority 2 Traffic Studies(e.g., OSU
experiments)

• Single freeway operations
• Queue surveillance
• Intersection turning movements
• Network path choice
• Parking lot utilization

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Priority 2 Incidence Verification, Response,
Management, Documentation

• Congestion
• Average 26 hrs/year per capita in 75 biggest
  cities
• Comparable delays for freight, public transit
  users
• 3.5 B hours of delay
• 5.7 B excess gallons of fuel
• 69.5 B cost in lost productivity
• gt50 of US congestion from accidents

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Highway incidents

• Morbidity and mortality
• 1.51 fatalities and 109 injuries per 100 million
  vehicle miles in 2001
• Golden Hour saves lives, improves patient state
• Secondary incidents
• 14-18 of all incidents
• 18 of freeway deaths
• 10,000 police cars, 2,000 fire trucks, and 3,000
  other service vehicles struck responding to
  traffic incidents

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Need for more rapid and accurate verification,
response and documentation
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Small UAVs

• Cheap (fixed and marginal costs)
• Flexible
• Rapidly deployed
• Straight line travel
• Flies over congestion
• Real time video for verification and real time
  operations
• High resolution imagery for incident documentation