SURE-SE: Sensors for Unplanned Roadway Events—Simulation and Evaluation: Final Report. Heidemann, J., Silva, F., Wang, X., Giuliano, G., & Hu, M. Technical Report USC/Information Sciences Institute, May, 2005. finalized July 2007; typographic corrections April 2008
SURE-SE: Sensors for Unplanned Roadway Events—Simulation and Evaluation: Final Report [link]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
The purpose of this research was to demonstrate the feasibility of using sensor networks in traffic monitoring applications, specifically a rapidly deployable network of traffic sensors (NOTS) for short-term monitoring and data collection. A sensor network is an array of sensors attached to small computer nodes that have communications capabilities via wireless network. Our application problem is heavy duty truck data: vehicle classification and reidentification, particularly under slow or varying speed conditions. An experimental sensor, the IST Blade sensor, is essentially a portable inductive loop sensor that provides high resolution data. We used the Blade sensor for our initial experiments. We conducted a field experiment on the USC campus in order to collect data for development of classification algorithms. Our results are encouraging; classification accuracy is comparable to that of other recent research efforts. Once we have developed acceptable classification algorithms, two directions are apparent for future research: use of multiple sensors with the goal of improving classification results, and the use of vehicle signatures to allow re-identification of vehicles across multiple sensors.
@TechReport{Heidemann05d,
	author = 	"John Heidemann and Fabio Silva and Xi Wang
 and Genevieve Giuliano and Mengzhao Hu",
	title = 	"SURE-SE: Sensors for Unplanned Roadway
                         Events---Simulation and Evaluation: Final Report",
	institution = 	"USC/Information Sciences Institute",
	year = 		2005,
	 sortdate = 		"2005-07-01",
	project = "ilense, surese",
	jsubject = "sensornet_fusion",
	type =		"METRANS Project 05-08 final report",
	month =		may,
	note =		"finalized July 2007; typographic corrections April 2008",
	location =	"johnh: pafile",
	keywords =	"sure-se final report, sensors, vehicle classification",
	url =		"http://www.isi.edu/%7ejohnh/PAPERS/Heidemann05d.html",
	pdfurl =		"http://www.isi.edu/%7ejohnh/PAPERS/Heidemann05d.pdf",
	myorganization =	"USC/Information Sciences Institute",
	abstract = "
The purpose of this research was to demonstrate the feasibility of
using sensor networks in traffic monitoring applications, specifically
a rapidly deployable network of traffic sensors (NOTS) for short-term
monitoring and data collection.  A sensor network is an array of
sensors attached to small computer nodes that have communications
capabilities via wireless network. Our application problem is heavy
duty truck data:  vehicle classification and reidentification,
particularly under slow or varying speed conditions.  An experimental
sensor, the IST Blade sensor, is essentially a portable inductive loop
sensor that provides high resolution data. We used the Blade sensor
for our initial experiments. We conducted a field experiment on the
USC campus in order to collect data for development of classification
algorithms.  Our results are encouraging; classification accuracy is
comparable to that of other recent research efforts. Once we have
developed acceptable classification algorithms, two directions are
apparent for future research: use of multiple sensors with the goal of
improving classification results, and the use of vehicle signatures to
allow re-identification of vehicles across multiple sensors.
",
}

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