Seminar 26th March 2012 4 p.m. Building 22, Room 2001
Transportation Research Group
Andy Chow
University College London
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- Complex Systems, Transport
- Submitter
- Luke Goater
Andy Chow
Urban traffic analysis - A case study of Central London
Understanding the nature of urban congestion is a prerequisite for effective traffic management. Most previous studies have been focusing on motorways while relatively less research has been done in urban areas. This is possibly due to the lack of traffic data and the complexity of urban traffic. Recently, the increasing availability of data has enabled more comprehensive research on urban streets. This talk presents some of our recent work with Transport for London on the spatio-temporal characteristics of urban traffic through processing, analyzing and fusing various data collected from Central London network. Traffic data include journey time estimates from the Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) system and GPS-equipped floating cars; traffic counts, and incident records.