Test of IR-DSRC in measuring vehicle speed for ITS applications

Abstract

Wireless communication technology has been introduced in the field of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) in the past decades, and its applicability has been widely expending. Feasibility of the IR-DSRC based vehicle detection systems in measuring vehicle speed was tested as a possible alternative of the conventional inductive loop based systems requiring high construction and maintenance cost. It was found from the field test that the speed data from the IR-DSRC detection systems were statistically identical to the ones from the loop based systems at 95% confidence level.