Research project

Wirelessly gathered road vehicle data for traffic control and other applications

Project overview

It is understood that wireless communication links between road vehicles and infrastructure will be commonplace in the near future. Such links will lead to the availability of a rich new data source potentially containing real time position and speed data (among others) for some or all vehicles on the UK road network. This is known as localization probe data. The availability of this new data source creates business opportunities to develop tools that manage, store, and process these data for applications. Similarly there are data sources, such as smart phone data, that are present but not fully utilised.

This project explored how exploiting these multiple data sources could help to create a single coherent image of the state of the network.

Staff

Lead researchers

Dr Ben Waterson

Professor
Research interests
  • Road transport
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Traveller Behaviour
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Other researchers

Professor Tom Cherrett

Prof of Logistics and Transport Mgnment
Research interests
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  • Approaches to more effectively collect and manage the movement of waste in terms of both hous…
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Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs