Estimation of hourly traffic flow profiles using speed data and annual average daily traffic data
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1. A method of estimating an hourly traffic flow profile for a roadway segment, comprising:
- computing a daily traffic flow value at a location on a roadway segment, and for a specified direction at a specified date, from annual average daily traffic data;
determining an hourly flow distribution profile for the location and for the specified direction at the specified date from collected traffic speed data, by
1) constructing temporal templates to detected traffic flows values,
2) developing one or more speed profiles from the collected traffic speed data, and
3) assigning a temporal template to a speed profile; and
calculating hourly traffic flow profiles by multiplying the hourly flow distribution profile by the daily flow value.
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Abstract
A framework for performance evaluation and active management of a transportation network infrastructure reconstructs traffic flow profiles by modeling annual average daily traffic data and collected traffic speed data to estimate an hourly traffic flow profile for a roadway segment, or link. Total daily flow for a link is derived from the corresponding annual average daily traffic data for that link, and is adjusting by the day of week and the monthly seasonal factors. An hourly flow distribution profile for a roadway link is then constructed using the traffic speed data relative to that link.
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1. A method of estimating an hourly traffic flow profile for a roadway segment, comprising:
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computing a daily traffic flow value at a location on a roadway segment, and for a specified direction at a specified date, from annual average daily traffic data; determining an hourly flow distribution profile for the location and for the specified direction at the specified date from collected traffic speed data, by
1) constructing temporal templates to detected traffic flows values,
2) developing one or more speed profiles from the collected traffic speed data, and
3) assigning a temporal template to a speed profile; andcalculating hourly traffic flow profiles by multiplying the hourly flow distribution profile by the daily flow value. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A system comprising:
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a computer-readable storage medium operably coupled to at least one computer processor and having program instructions stored therein, the computer processor being operable to execute the program instructions to perform one or more data processing functions in a plurality of modules, the plurality of modules including; a data ingest module configured to ingest input data that at least includes annual average daily traffic data, detected traffic flow values, and collected traffic speed data, a daily traffic flow module configured to normalize the annual average traffic data with a monthly seasonal factor and a day of the week factor for each location on a roadway segment, for a specified direction and a specified date to formulate a daily traffic flow value, an hourly flow distribution profile module configured to assign temporal templates developed from detected traffic flow values to speed profiles representative of collected traffic speed data to determine an hourly flow distribution profile for each location, for the specified direction at the specified date, and a classification module configured to categorize the average annual daily traffic data with the collected traffic speed data to allocate the average annual daily traffic data into a time period that includes a morning peak, an afternoon peak, a Saturday period, a Sunday period, and a double peak, by multiplying the hourly flow distribution profile by the daily traffic flow value. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method comprising:
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ingesting input data that at least includes annual average daily traffic data, detected traffic flow values, and collected traffic speed data; modeling the input data to construct estimates of hourly traffic flow profiles, by; normalizing the annual average traffic data with a monthly seasonal factor and a day of the week factor for each location on a roadway segment, for a specified direction and a specified date to formulate a daily traffic flow value, assigning temporal templates constructed from detected traffic flow values to speed profiles representative of collected traffic speed data to determine an hourly flow distribution profile for each location, for the specified direction at the specified date, and categorizing the average annual daily traffic data with the collected traffic speed data to allocate the average annual daily traffic data into a time period that includes a morning peak, an afternoon peak, a Saturday period, a Sunday period, and a double peak; and generating output data representative of estimations of hourly traffic flow profiles. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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