For the limitation of technology and cost, the in-roadway sensors sparsely deployed on freeway corridors have been common in the past. Currently, such layouts of sensors can barely satisfy data acquisition requirement for freeway traffic management and organization. Thus, how to efficiently utilize the existing deployed sensors and to add additional sensors within the constraint of budget to satisfy the data acquisition requirement needs to be analyzed. This study discusses the allocation of the add-on sensors to make up for the inadequacy of the precision and the coverage of existing deployed sensors. An objective optimization model was developed to identify the locations of the add-on sensors. To solve the model, a genetic algorithm–based optimization program was proposed. A case study of Ning-Hang freeway in China’s Jiangsu province was conducted to demonstrate the utility of the developed methodology. The results demonstrated that the proposed method was efficient in allocating multitype sensors to improve the accuracy of travel time estimation within certain constraints. Travel time estimation error could be decreased by increasing the number of sensors; however, optimizing the locations of sensors is more efficient than just increasing the number of sensors. An optimal value for the number of sensors exists; increasing this value will not improve the estimation accuracy but cause sensor redundancy, and reducing it will affect the estimation accuracy.


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    Title :

    Method for Allocating Multitype Sensors on a Freeway Corridor with Existing Sensors


    Contributors:
    Zhan, Fengping (author) / Zhang, Jian (author) / Wan, Xia (author) / Ran, Bin (author)


    Publication date :

    2017-08-31




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown




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