Mesoscopic-Wavelet Freeway Work Zone Flow and Congestion Feature Extraction Model
- 1 January 2004
- journal article
- Published by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in Journal of Transportation Engineering
- Vol. 130 (1), 94-103
- https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)0733-947x(2004)130:1(94)
Abstract
A new mesoscopic-wavelet model is presented for simulating freeway traffic flow patterns and extracting congestion characteristics. A traffic speed–density relationship is introduced with a lane drop factor to take into account lane closures in freeway work zones. Patterns of multiple parameters are inputted to a congestion feature extraction algorithm. An approximate solution for this equation is found by space-time discretization. The high frequency fluctuations of the signal are not recognizable at normal resolutions. To overcome this problem, a multi-resolution wavelet filter is introduced in the proposed model to enhance traffic features and extract congestion characteristics from the traffic data. Fourth-order Coifman wavelets are used for filtering because of their good approximation for high-resolution scaling.Keywords
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