Monitoring of Traffic Networks Using Mobile Sensors

Reference

Z. Cong, B. De Schutter, M. Burger, and R. Babuška, "Monitoring of Traffic Networks Using Mobile Sensors," Proceedings of the 17th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2014), Qingdao, China, pp. 792-797, Oct. 2014.

Abstract

In this paper, we consider using mobile sensors (unmanned aerial vehicles) to monitor the traffic situation in a traffic network. We aim at finding optimal paths for mobile sensors such that the target links in the traffic network are covered; in addition, we also aim at minimizing energy consumption of mobile sensors. This problem is recast as a multiple rural postman problem. In order to solve this problem, we subsequently translate it into a multiple traveling salesman problem, by mapping the real traffic network into a virtual network, and then solve it by using mixed-integer linear programming. A simulation-based case study is used to illustrate our approach.

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Bibtex entry

@inproceedings{ConDeS:14-042,
author={Z. Cong and B. {D}e Schutter and M. Burger and R. Babu{\v{s}}ka},
title={Monitoring of Traffic Networks Using Mobile Sensors},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2014)},
address={Qingdao, China},
pages={792--797},
month=oct,
year={2014},
doi={10.1109/ITSC.2014.6957786}
}

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