Remote Estimation of Free-Flow Speeds

06/24/2019
by   Weilian Song, et al.
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We propose an automated method to estimate a road segment's free-flow speed from overhead imagery and road metadata. The free-flow speed of a road segment is the average observed vehicle speed in ideal conditions, without congestion or adverse weather. Standard practice for estimating free-flow speeds depends on several road attributes, including grade, curve, and width of the right of way. Unfortunately, many of these fine-grained labels are not always readily available and are costly to manually annotate. To compensate, our model uses a small, easy to obtain subset of road features along with aerial imagery to directly estimate free-flow speed with a deep convolutional neural network (CNN). We evaluate our approach on a large dataset, and demonstrate that using imagery alone performs nearly as well as the road features and that the combination of imagery with road features leads to the highest accuracy.

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