Machine vision for traffic management

Date: 4/3/2010

Source: ‘Seeing machines’ Traffic Technology International, January 2010, pg. 20-23

Machine vision is increasingly being used to help analyse traffic-related video images to collect data and to help with traffic management. The author describes some of the newest and most useful camera ranges offered by a number of producers that are suitable for ITS applications. There is an increasing range of small, cheap but high performance cameras that will operate in a wide range of conditions.  These are used for Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) and vehicle detection at junctions as a replacement for induction loops.  However, as machine vision and the camera hardware improves, more applications are being found.

Keywords: Enforcement, Identification, Monitoring, Traffic Management