Traffic volume determination system, traffic volume determination method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing traffic volume determination program

• US 10,580,293 B2
• Filed: 08/21/2018
• Issued: 03/03/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 09/15/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Jin, Xin, Takayama, Toshinori
• Primary Examiner(s): Pope, Daryl C
• Application Number:
  US16/106,814
• Publication Number:
  US 20190088118A1
• Time in Patent Office: 560 Days
• Field of Search: 340933, 340901, 340902, 340903, 340904, 340905, 340928, 340932, 340937
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0112 from the vehicle, e.g. floating car data [FCD]
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0129 for creating historical data or processing based on historical data
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0133 for classifying traffic situation
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0141 for traffic information dissemination
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/065 by counting the vehicles in a section of the road or in a parking area, i.e. comparing incoming count with outgoing count

Abstract

A traffic volume determination system includes a table configured to store information indicating a statistical proportion of vehicles flowing into an exit link exiting from a node, among vehicles traveling on an entry link entering the node; an estimation unit configured to calculate an estimated value of a traffic volume of vehicles traveling on the exit link from an actual traffic volume of the vehicles traveling on the entry link, with reference to the table; and a determination unit configured to determine that the exit link is closed when the actual traffic volume of the vehicles traveling on the exit link is smaller than the estimated value.

Claims

1. A traffic volume determination system comprising:

a storage device configured to store a table configured to store information indicating a statistical proportion of vehicles flowing into an exit link exiting from a node, among other vehicles traveling on an entry link entering the node; and

a processor configured to

calculate an estimated value of a traffic volume of vehicles traveling on the exit link from an actual traffic volume of the other vehicles traveling on the entry link, with reference to the table, and

determine that the exit link is closed when an actual traffic volume of the vehicles traveling on the exit link is smaller than the estimated value.

2. The traffic volume determination system according to claim 1, wherein the table is configured to further store information indicating a statistical proportion of vehicles having no history of traveling on the entry link among the vehicles traveling on the exit link.

3. A traffic volume determination system comprising:

a storage device configured to store a table configured to sort out and store information indicating a statistical proportion of vehicles flowing into an exit link exiting from a node, among other vehicles traveling on a plurality of entry links entering the node, for each entry link; and

a processor configured to

calculate an estimated value of a traffic volume of vehicles traveling on the exit link from an actual traffic volume of the other vehicles traveling on each of the entry links, with reference to the table, and

determine that the exit link is closed when an actual traffic volume of the vehicles traveling on the exit link is smaller than the estimated value.

4. The traffic volume determination system according to claim 3, wherein the table is configured to further store information indicating a statistical proportion of vehicles having no history of traveling on the entry link among the vehicles traveling on the exit link.

5. A traffic volume determination method comprising:

preparing a table configured to store information indicating a statistical proportion of vehicles flowing into an exit link exiting from a node, among other vehicles traveling on an entry link entering the node, by a computer system;

calculating an estimated value of a traffic volume of vehicles traveling on the exit link from an actual traffic volume of the other vehicles traveling on the entry link, with reference to the table, by the computer system; and

determining that the exit link is closed when an actual traffic volume of the vehicles traveling on the exit link is smaller than the estimated value, by the computer system.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a traffic volume determination program, the traffic volume determination program causing a computer system to execute steps of:

preparing a table configured to store information indicating a statistical proportion of vehicles flowing into an exit link exiting from a node, among other vehicles traveling on an entry link entering the node;

calculating an estimated value of a traffic volume of vehicles traveling on the exit link from an actual traffic volume of the other vehicles traveling on the entry link, with reference to the table; and

determining that the exit link is closed when an actual traffic volume of the vehicles traveling on the exit link is smaller than the estimated value.