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Fusion Strategy on Heterogeneous Information Sources for Improving the Accuracy of Real-Time Traffic Information

실시간 교통정보 정확도 향상을 위한 이질적 교통정보 융합 연구

  • 김종진 (영남대학교 도시공학과) ;
  • 정연식 (영남대학교 도시공학과)
  • Received : 2021.05.20
  • Accepted : 2021.06.17
  • Published : 2022.02.01
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Abstract

In recent, the number of real-time traffic information sources and providers has increased as increasing smartphone users and intelligent transportation system facilities installed at roadways including vehicle detection system (VDS), dedicated short-ranged communications (DSRC), and global positioning system (GPS) probe vehicle. The accuracy of such traffic information would vary with these heterogeneous information sources or spatiotemporal traffic conditions. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to propose an empirical strategy of heterogeneous information fusion to improve the accuracy of real-time traffic information. To carry out this purpose, travel speed data collection based on the floating car technique was conducted on 227 freeway links (or 892.2 km long) and 2,074 national highway links (or 937.0 km long). The average travel speed for 5 probe vehicles on a specific time period and a link was used as a ground truth measure to evaluate the accuracy of real-time heterogeneous traffic information for that time period and that link. From the statistical tests, it was found that the proposed fusion strategy improves the accuracy of real-time traffic information.

최근 높은 스마트폰 보급율과 ITS (intelligent transportation systems) 인프라 확충 등 정보통신기술(information and communications technology, ICT) 이용 활성화로 실시간 교통정보의 수집원이 증가하였다. 이렇게 다양하게 수집되는 실시간 교통정보의 정확도는 VDS(vehicle detection system), DSRC (dedicated short-range communications), GPS (global positioning system) probe와 같은 다양한 교통정보 수집원별 시공간 혹은 교통상황 등 다양한 환경에 따라 다르게 나타날 수 있다. 본 연구의 목적은 이질적 교통정보가 동시에 수집될 경우, 실시간 교통정보의 정확도를 향상시키기 위한 융합 전략의 제시에 있다. 이를 위해 고속국도(892.2 km, 227개 링크), 일반국도(937.0 km, 2,074개 링크)를 대상으로 주행 조사를 실시하였으며, 해당 링크 및 시간대에 probe 차량 5대의 평균 통행속도는 실시간 교통정보 수집원별(VDS or DSRC, GPS-based A, B) 정확도 평가의 기준 혹은 참값으로 활용되었다. 결과적으로 제시된 융합 전략에 대한 정확도 개선 효과는 일반국도에서 1개 수집원을 제외하고 모두 통계적으로 유의한 것으로 나타났으며, 향후 다양한 기관으로부터 서비스되는 실시간 교통정보가 동시에 연계되는 환경에서 보다 정확한 교통정보 서비스의 가능성을 확인하였다.

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Acknowledgement

This work was supported by the 2021 Yeungnam University research grant.

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