Automatic threshold computation for traffic incident detection using INRIX

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2019-01-01
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Chang, Han-Shu
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Carl K. Chang
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Computer Science—the theory, representation, processing, communication and use of information—is fundamentally transforming every aspect of human endeavor. The Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University advances computational and information sciences through; 1. educational and research programs within and beyond the university; 2. active engagement to help define national and international research, and 3. educational agendas, and sustained commitment to graduating leaders for academia, industry and government.

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The Computer Science Department was officially established in 1969, with Robert Stewart serving as the founding Department Chair. Faculty were composed of joint appointments with Mathematics, Statistics, and Electrical Engineering. In 1969, the building which now houses the Computer Science department, then simply called the Computer Science building, was completed. Later it was named Atanasoff Hall. Throughout the 1980s to present, the department expanded and developed its teaching and research agendas to cover many areas of computing.

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Traffic congestion in freeways poses a major threat to the economic prosperity of the nation. It not only causes loss of productivity of the workforce but also frustration among the drivers. Traffic incidents such as vehicle crashes, overturned trucks, and stalled vehicles contribute to a significant amount of non-recurrent congestion. Automatic Incident Detection (AID) algorithms have been developed for detecting such incidents in real-time and alerting the drivers. Such incident detection algorithms often rely on generating thresholds based on historical traffic patterns. However, large-scale historical traffic data often poses to be a major challenge in processing these data and automatically generate thresholds for incident detection. This project leverages lambda architecture and cloud computing service to develop an automatic threshold computation module. It is based on the Inter-Quartile Distance (IQD) method for threshold computation and runs on a weekly basis using previous 8 weeks of historical data, amounting to more than 250 GB of traffic data. The incidents detected using the real-time traffic data and the automatically generated thresholds can be used by Traffic Management Centers for real-time incident detection and further analysis such as incident validation and performance tuning.

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