Large-scale automated proactive road safety analysis using video data

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 58, Issue , 2015, Pages 363-379

  St Aubin, Paul ^a   Saunier, Nicolas ^a   Miranda Moreno, Luis ^b  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Big data; Computer vision; Conflicts; Road safety; Road user behaviour; Road users; Roundabouts; Surrogate safety; Time to collision; Traffic; Trajectories; Transportation

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BIG DATA; COMPUTER VISION; DATA STREAMS; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; ROADS AND STREETS; SECURITY SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; TRAJECTORIES; TRANSPORTATION; VIDEO CAMERAS;

CONFLICTS; ROAD SAFETY; ROAD USERS; ROUNDABOUTS; TIME TO COLLISION;

STREET TRAFFIC CONTROL;

SOFTWARE; TRACKING; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY; TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGY; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; VIDEOGRAPHY;

EID: 84940459321     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2015.04.007     Document Type: Article

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