Transportation Engineering Seminar – Novel Sensing Methods and Technologies for Transit Rider and Non-Motorized Traffic Monitoring

About the event

Real-time traffic data is essential for the advancement of emerging data-driven transportation technologies, e.g. deep learning-based traffic modeling approaches, autonomous vehicles, and urban computing. The existing sensing technologies work properly well for motorized vehicles monitoring. However, it is still a big challenge for transportation agencies to obtain reliable data of transit riders and non-motorized travelers in today’s practice with existing traffic sensing technologies. This presentation will introduce the established novel sensing methods and technologies for transit rider and non-motorized traffic monitoring using computer vision and wireless sensing technologies. Multiple challenging scenarios are identified to be addressed, including low-illumination conditions, pedestrian and transit rider re-identification, and limited computational resources of edge device, etc.