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.
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Active
- Funding: $99964
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Contract Numbers:
Project 20-30, IDEA 214
GDOT RP 19-17
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Sponsor Organizations:
National Cooperative Highway Research Program
Transportation Research Board
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC United States 20001American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)
444 North Capitol Street, NW
Washington, DC United States 20001Federal Highway Administration
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590Georgia Department of Transportation
One Georgia Center
600 West Peachtree Street, NW
Atlanta, GA United States 30308 -
Project Managers:
Jawed, Inam
Roney, Brennan
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Performing Organizations:
Georgia Institute of Technology
,Georgia Tech Research Corporation
505 Tenth Street
Atlanta, GA United States 30332-0420 -
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, GDOT RP 19-17
- Files: TRB, RiP
- Created Date: Apr 8 2019 3:06PM