Monitoring of traffic networks using mobile sensors

Reference:
Z. Cong, B. De Schutter, M. Burger, and R. Babuska, "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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