Transcript [Jeremiah Dunn]

Jeremiah Dunn
Overview
 Introduction
 Mobile Millenium
 Goal
 Complexity of the Problem
 Gathering Data
 Data Fusion
 Modeling the Flow of Traffic
 Mobile Century
 Conclusion
Introduction
 Fixation of humanity on futuristic cars & autonomous
travel has drastically changed the modern car.
 While not quite going in that direction, cheap sensors
and network availability are essentially boosting the
“brainpower” of our driving environment.
 Between road-side sensors, dashboard GPS, and Smart
phones many companies are provided with traffic data
collection.
Mobile Millenium
 Started in 2007
 One of the first large-scale projects for traffic
monitoring
 Run by Nokia, NAVTEQ, and UC Berkeley
 Only able to be conceived and work thanks to the rise
of the “smart-phone” thanks to embedded GPS
Goal
 Merge road-side sensor networks with smartphone
GPS feedback to generate a real-time traffic
monitoring situation.
Complexity of the Solution
Gathering Data
 VTLs (Virtual Trip Lines): to prevent constant packet
transfer, the phone will only upload statistics when it
crosses a “checkpoint” along the VTLs.
Data Fusion
 Incoming data from many sources
 GPS
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Buses
Taxis
Cars
 Static Sensors
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Loop Detectors
RFID tag readers
 GPS may have faulty Data
 Walkers/Parked/etc
Modeling the Flow of Traffic
 Obvious way to think about modeling traffic is by
individual cars
 Designed a new set of algorithms based on fluid
mechanics
Mobile Century
 All this data collection culminated in 2008 in a test
 100 Cars mixed in a 10-mile stretch in Norther California
 10 Hours and accounted for 2-5% of the cars on the
highway
 Mobile Millinum vs Google Maps w/ Traffic
 Noticed a sudden red blotch appeared on the test
stretch, but it took several minutes to appear on
Google’s system.
Conclusion
 Was able to detect and report a slow-down in under a
minute
 Proved that only a few cars were needed to get the
system to run efficiently (2-5%)
 Successful test has led to the concept and technology
demonstrated to become widespread into Google’s
mobile Maps app.
 Proved that the mobile scene was better performed
than any static detector system.