Filling stations traffic data
- Highways Magazine No. 129 - September / October 2003
Antonio Martinez Cachafeiro
ABSTRACT
In the set of comprehensive management systems and traffic control, data acquisition is very important, because from them the plans and management strategies are developed and user information. Stations Traffic Data Collection (ETD's) are responsible to capture this data and make a first processing or treating them for onward shipment to the Control Center.
Key elements of ETD's are detectors or sensors that can be of many types, the most common inductive loop detectors. In recent years used increasingly often, machine vision systems and sensors data elements. In both cases, one of the most important applications of this data collection system is the Automatic Incident Detection.
KEYWORDS
Traffic, traffic management, data collection station traffic.