Conceptual Approach for Determining Penetration Rates for Dynamic Indirect Traffic Detection Based on Bluetooth

摘要

An efficient traffic management requires current and area-wide traffic data. Today differentsystems exist on highways, main roads and major arteries for a comprehensive trafficcollection. It is the goal of traffic authorities world-wide to obtain highly accurate spatialtemporaltraffic data without installation of costly and deteriorating physically invasiveinfrastructure in inner-city and rural areas, too. Therefore, a novel approach for an efficientand low-cost large-scale traffic monitoring was presented in [6], which augments the FloatingCar Data (FCD) principles by an anonymous indirect detection of traffic objects (cars,cyclists, pedestrians) using cars which are equipped with specific radio-based Bluetooth/Wi-Fi receivers. By introducing a conceptual method the presented paper deliberates to thequestion how many equipped cars are required to derive dynamic high quality trafficinformation on the basis of this new approach.