Evaluation of Arterial Signal Coordination with Commercial Connected Vehicle Data: Empirical Traffic Flow Visualization and Performance Measurement

Emerging connected vehicle (CV) data sets have recently become commercially available, enabling analysts to develop a variety of powerful performance measures without deploying any field infrastructure. This paper presents several tools using CV data to evaluate traffic progression quality along a signalized corridor. These include both performance measures for high-level analysis as well as visualizations to examine details of the coordinated operation. With the use of CV data, it is possible to assess not only the movement of traffic on the corridor but also to consider its origin-destination (O-D) path through the corridor. Results for the real-world operation of an eight-intersection signalized arterial are presented. A series of high-level performance measures are used to evaluate overall performance by time of day, with differing results by metric. Next, the details of the operation are examined with the use of two visualization tools: a cyclic time-space diagram (TSD) and an empirical platoon progression diagram (PPD). Comparing flow visualizations developed with different included O-D paths reveals several features, such as the presence of secondary and tertiary platoons on certain sections that cannot be seen when only end-to-end journeys are included. In addition, speed heat maps are generated, providing both speed performance along the corridor and locations and the extent of the queue. The proposed visualization tools portray the corridor’s performance holistically instead of combining individual signal performance metrics. The techniques exhibited in this study are compelling for identifying locations where engineering solutions such as access management or timing plan change are required. The recent progress in infrastructure-free sensing technology has significantly increased the scope of CV data-based traffic management systems, enhancing the significance of this study. The study demonstrates the utility of CV trajectory data for obtaining high-level details of the corridor performance as well as drilling down into the minute specifics.

Estimation of Connected Vehicle Penetration on US Roads in Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania

Connected vehicle data is an important assessment tool for agencies to evaluate the performance of freeways and arterials, provided there is sufficient penetration to provide statistically robust performance measures. A common concern by agencies interested in using crowd sourced probe data is the penetration rate across different types of roads, different hours of the day, and different regions. This paper describes and demonstrates a methodology that uses data from state highway performance monitoring systems in Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania. The study analyzes 54 locations over the 3 states for select Wednesdays and Saturdays in 2020 and 2021. Overall, across all locations and dates, the median penetration was approximately 4.5%. The median penetration for August 2020 for Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania was 4.6%, 4.3%, and 4.0%, respectively. The median penetration for those same states in August 2020 on interstates and non-interstates was 3.9% and 4.6%, respectively. Additionally, the study conducted a longitudinal evaluation of Indiana penetration for selected months between January 2020 and June 2021. Indiana penetration increased modestly between December 2020 and June 2021, perhaps due to the post-COVID rebound of passenger vehicle traffic. This paper concludes by recommending that the techniques described in this paper be scaled to other states so that traffic engineers can make informed decisions on the use and limitations of connected vehicle data for various use cases.

A Method of Road Data Aided Inertial Navigation by Using Learning to Rank and ICCP Algorithm

As an independent navigation method,inertial navigation system(INS)has played a huge advantage in a lot of special conditions.But its positioning error will accumulate with time,so it is difficult to work independently for a long time.The vehicle loaded with the inertial navigation system usually drives on the road,so the high precision road data based on geographic information system(GIS)can be used as a bind of auxiliary information,which could correct INS errors by the correlation matching algorithm.The existing road matching methods rely on mathematical models,mostly for global positioning system(GPS)trajectory data,and are limited to model parameters.Therefore,based on the features of inertial navigation trajectory and road,this paper proposes a road data aided vehicle inertial navigation method based on the learning to rank and iterative closest contour point(ICCP)algorithm.Firstly,according to the geometric and directional features of inertial navigation trajectory and road,the combined feature vector is constructed as the input value;Furthermore,the scoring function and RankNet neural network based on the features of vehicle trajectory data and road data are constructed,which can learn and extract the features;Then,the nearest point of each track point and its corresponding road data set to be matched is calculated.The average translation between the two data sets is calculated by using the position relationship between each group of track points to be matched and road points;Finally,the trajectory data set is iteratively translated according to the translation amount,and the matching track point set is obtained when the trajectory error converges to complete the matching.During experiments,it is compared with other algorithms including the hidden Markov model(HMM)matching method.The experimental results show that the algorithm can effectively suppress the divergence of trajectory error.The matching accuracy is close to HMM algorithm,and the computational efficiency can meet the requirements of the traditional matching algorithm.