An Enhanced Network-Level Curve Safety Assessment and Monitoring Using Mobile Devices

This project will develop a method for assessing network-level curve safety conditions safely and cost effectively by collecting and analyzing vehicles’ GPS trajectory and kinematic data using intra-agency, crowdsourced, low-cost mobile devices. Work in Stage 1 will develop a framework for a network-level curve safety assessment and calibrating and validating the developed algorithms using a single run of mobile device data. The specification for each component, such as data type, data accuracy, mobile device, and data server will be identified and a prototype will be developed to evaluate the system capability. The developed algorithms will be critically calibrated and validated for computing curve radii, superelevation, and BBI.  Vehicles and test roadways with different curves will be selected with assistance from the Georgia DOT and ground truth curve properties (i.e., radii and superelevation) will be collected.  By combining the vehicle’s rolling angle measurement, roadway superelevation and BBI can be calculated.  The calculated results will be compared with the ground truth data. In Stage 2, a method to improve data quality by integrating multiple-run data will be developed and validated. By using multiple-run data, errors that arise from drivers’ unexpected driving actions or other systematic bias will be identified.  Unknown biases will be removed using multiple-run data collected by different drivers and the corresponding data processing. The developed method will be validated using field test routes.

• Record URL:
  http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=4712

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $99964
• Contract Numbers:

  Project 20-30, IDEA 214

• Sponsor Organizations:

  National Cooperative Highway Research Program

  Transportation Research Board
  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001

  American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)

  444 North Capitol Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  Jawed, Inam

• Performing Organizations:

  Georgia Institute of Technology

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• Principal Investigators:

  Tsai, James

• Start Date: 20190409
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Algorithms; Calibration; Data collection; Data quality; Field tests; Global Positioning System; Highway curves; Highway safety; Methodology; Mobile applications; Prototypes; Validation; Vehicle trajectories
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01701605
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
• Contract Numbers: Project 20-30, IDEA 214
• Files: TRB, RiP
• Created Date: Apr 8 2019 3:06PM