Towards Quality Aware Crowdsourced Road Sensing for Smart CitiesNSF CNS-1737590 |
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Project Background and GoalsWith nearly a billion automobiles on the road today, the current transportation systems have begun to show signs of serious strain, such as congestions, traffic accidents, road surface defects, and malfunctioning traffic regulation infrastructures. Therefore, it is of great importance to collect and disseminate road/traffic condition information accurately, efficiently, and timely. Traditionally, road and traffic monitoring are conducted through either stationary sensors or instrumented probe vehicles. Unfortunately, the prohibitively high deployment cost of such devices makes it impossible to achieve large-scale deployment, leading to limited road coverage and delayed information update. To mitigate these problems, this project develops QuicRoad, a Quality of Information (QoI) aware crowdsourced road sensing system that can collect road/traffic information from a variety of sources, including smartphones, social media and transportation authorities (as well as future connected vehicles), and then distribute the collected information in real time. |
Project ImpactThis project integrates across both social and technological research dimensions. In the technological dimension, it leads to a novel Quality of Information (QoI) aware information integration framework that can jointly optimize the estimation of the QoI of various sources, and the information-integration as well as decision-making process. In the social dimension, it answers fundamental questions such as whether and to what degree the road/traffic condition information provided by the proposed QuicRoad system would change the social behavior of the travelers. By seamlessly integrating the technological and social dimensions, the proposed research can not only improve the coverage and quality of assisted driving and road navigation services for travelers, but also support policy-making in traffic planning and operations by transportation authorities. The research will potentially benefit a wide spectrum of real-world road sensing applications aimed at improving road safety, mitigating traffic congestions, and reducing fuel consumption and emissions, and eventually contribute to building a sustainable society. |
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