On the estimation of space-mean-speed from inductive loop detector data

Jiang Han, John W. Polak, Javier Barria and Rajesh Krishnan

Transportation Planning and Technology, 2009, vol. 33, issue 1, 91-104

Abstract: Travel time is an important indicator of network performance used in traffic operations and management. Commonly deployed inductive loop detectors (ILDs) measure time-mean-speed (TMS), whereas space-mean-speed (SMS) is required to calculate the travel time. A well-known relationship between the TMS and the SMS was derived by Wardrop. However, this relationship cannot be used in practice to estimate travel times as it requires knowledge of the variance of the SMS. The variance of the SMS is not measured by the ILDs and is normally not available in practice. A novel formulation is presented in this paper to estimate the SMS using TMS obtained from ILDs. In addition, two additional models based on the formulation are developed to improve the estimation performance by taking traffic states into account. The initial results show that the proposed formulation can used to estimate the SMS, and hence the travel time, accurately using real-world data.

Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1080/03081060903429421

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