CityCount (CC): Monitoring Urban Traffic
CC (10/21 – 09/22)
CityCount (CC)
Problem Statement
Inner-city traffic is changing towards climate protection-oriented mobility solutions. City traffic management intensively pursues the increase of non-motorized traffic. At the moment, no technology exists that can automatically monitor different and new classes of traffic participants, such as cargo bikes or e-scooters. Data about current traffic volumes is required by cities to evaluating planning measures and seek solutions for future traffic management.
Project Goal
The goal of this study is to investigate the potential of a cost-efficient mobile counting device for monitoring non-motorized, mixed traffic. The development is based on the real-time evaluation of video data using machine learning (ML) methods in the field of computer vision. Specifically, the development includes the extraction of motion patterns via multi-object-tracking (MOT). The obtained tracks are not only used to derive a traffic count but can also be used to analyze the motion patters of traffic participants (e.g. turn movement).
Project Approach
As part of the feasibility study, the requirements for use cases and data provision were first determined in exchange with the associated partners (state capitals of Düsseldorf, Erfurt, Magdeburg and the city of Cologne). Based on the requirements analysis, the concept for the mobile counting device was developed. The overall system includes hardware, an AI model which performs multi-object-tracking in real-time, a subsequent post-processing step for extracting the traffic count data, and the data provision via a dashboard for the user.
In the course of the project, the individual components were examined for technical feasibility. At the end of the project, a sample data set was published in the mCLOUD, and further development possibilities and future application for inner-city traffic monitoring were discussed.
Project Details
- Project on BMDV website
- FKZ: 19F1084A
- Project Volume: 142.857 €
- Project Duration: 10/2021 – 09/2022
- Associated Partners:
| Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf, Amt für Verkehrsmanagement | Landeshauptstadt Erfurt, Tiefbau- und Verkehrsamt, Abteilung Verkehr |
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| Landeshauptstadt Magdeburg, Dezernat VI, Dezernat für Stadtentwicklung, Bau und Verkehr | Stadt Köln, Abteilung Verkehrsplanung, Amt für Straßen und Verkehrsentwicklung |
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