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Vol.1February 2019

JCC MEETING AT IITH (JUNE 2018)

RESEARCH MEETINGS AT IITH

WELCOME!
by Haruka Katarao

What is M2Smart Project?
The goal of M2Smart project is to
reduce carbon dioxide throughoptimization of the traffic flow. This
research project is targeting global
issues, such as contributing to theglobal environment through theacademic partnerships between
researchers in Japan (Nagoya ElectricWorks, Nihon University and Tokyo
Institute of Technology) and India(Indian Institute of Technology
Hyderabad (IITH)).

Introduction for the Project
Team leader and Co-leader
Group 1 [Sensing] Leader: Dr. C
Krishna Mohan (IITH), Co-leader: Dr.
Satoshi Takahashi (Nagoya ElectricWorks)Group 2 [Big Data Analysis] Leader: Dr.
Tetsuhiro Ishizaka (Nihon University),
Co-leader: Dr. Manuendra Sankar
Desarkar (IITH)
Group 3 [Multimodal Application]
Leader: Dr. Digvijay Pawar (IITH), Coleader: Mr.Hideki Komori (NagoyaElectric Works )Group 4 [CO2 Reduction] Leader: Dr.
Atsushi Fukuda (Nihon University), Coleader: Dr. Soumya Jana (IITH)

In June and August 2018, research meetings are
conducted at IITH.

M2SMART NEWSLETTER | VOL.12Different aspects of ITSby Satish Kumar Reddy

Traffic management and information systems rely
on a suite of sensors for estimating trafficparameters. Vision-based video monitoring
systems offer several advantages such as vehicle
classifications, lane changes, etc., can bemeasured. To this end, vehicles were initiallydetected based on R-CNN structures. They weretracked by online multi-object tracking problem
framework.
Simultaneously, Lidar technology is also being
explored to sense the vehicles, which provides
high precision range information with wide fields .

Vehicle detection and tracking.

Segmented point cloud of LIDAR imagesof vehicle.
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Inter-vehicular gap near IIT-H Main gateon NH-65 Mumbai Highway modelled
and fit with Weibull distribution

At the same time, driver behaviour such as intervehicular gap should be analysed at different
locations to set safety norms and to predict theimpacts on the vehicular emission. To this end,
gap acceptance for different classes of a vehicle
near T-intersection located at IIT-H main gate wasstudied.
On the other hand, to examine the effect oftransportation sector on carbon foot print, efforts
are being made to understand the spatial
temporal trends of emissions due to vehicles
using low cost CO sensors.

Initial development phase of compact COsensing setup to monitor vehicularemission.

ITS Workshop in Bengaluru
by Antony Franklin and Thamilselvam.B

As part of the M2Smart project, Dr. Antony Franklin and Mr. Thamilselvam, the researchers from IITH
presented their work in the 5th workshop on Intelligent Transportation System workshop, co-locatedwith COMSNETS 2019 in Bangalore 7-11th January 2019.
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The performance analysis of both single-hop and multi-hop routing protocol using Delay Tolarant
Networks (DTN) and AllJoyn framework for Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) communication was doneusing a smartphone application developed in house at IITH. Based on the experiments, it is shownthat Epidemic routing protocol performs the best in the considered multi-hop scenario in terms oftransfer delay, coverage, and throughput whereas, Direct Delivery routing protocol performs
better than AllJoyn in single-hop communication. The work of another group, consisting of Mr
Thamilselvan B, Dr. Subrahmanyam Kalyanasundaram and Dr. M. V. Panduranga Rao, titled“Coordinated Intelligent Traffic Light using Uppaal Stratego” was presented by Mr Thamilselvam.

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An interesting approach that used statistical model checking and machine learning techniques toimprove throughput at an isolated traffic junction has been reported in recent literature. In thiswork, a new technique is developed using these techniques to show dramatic improvements intraffic throughput when two neighboring junctions act in a coordinated manner.

IITH researchers at the workshop.

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Ahmedabad Workshopby Tetsuhiro Ishizaka

Dedicated autos were parked near theBRT station stalled with a flag

Participants of workshop been given
appreciation certificatesIn future, the limited accessibility of
BRT stations could lead the riders
towards increased private motor vehicle.
To fill this gap, one needs to deploy
efficient last mile connectivity services
providing access to BRT stations andhomes/offices while simultaneously finetuning such services based on the riders
comfort, behaviour and requirement. In
this paper, the authors demonstrate thisidea on a busy BRT station of acommercial area in Ahmedabad, India.
This approach was tested in a workshopconducted near busy BRT station with
the Multi-modal application (MMA)
which can provide shortest and most
eco-friendly routes using all possiblemodes. Specifically, the application wasused to track the modal choice behaviorof the riders. A questionnaire was takenfrom the participants on different aspects
like ride comfort, transit delay before andafter the experiment to examine the effect ofseamlessnessonrider'sopinion.

Interaction with auto drivers andparticipants

OUR OBSERVATIONS

50%
Overall participant satisfaction prior to feeder
experiment80%
Overall participant satisfaction after thefeeder experiment

BRT service Reliability Analysis
by Anand Kakarla

Delay proportions of all lane types

Delay contribution of different lanes of a
BRT tsystems.

To improve service reliability of BRTS in
Ahmedabad,its
traveltime
characteristics across time-space wasanalyzed based on incomplete GPS log
data. The results clearly indicated thatthe delay occurs near the bigintersections. It was also observed thatsuch intersections contributed about
25\% of the total travel time. The
velocity profiles were further used tocharacterize and quantify the delaycaused by the mixed traffic zones. It wasobserved that these zones contributed
about 25\% of the total travel time.
Further, to estimate the spatial
distribution of the delay variation along
a route, a heuristic segmentation
analysis was developed.

Statistics of delay variation profileof the segmented grid

Statistics of delay variation profile of thessegmented grid

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PUBLICATIONS
Conference papers
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Ryohei Hashimoto, Tetsuhiro Ishizaka, “Characteristics BRT Operation and Delay Analysis in Ahmedabad India”, Civil
Eng. Society, August, Japan, 2018.
Tetsuhiro Ishizaka, Fumiya Takahashi, Atsushi Fukuda,” Basic Study of Transportation choice by access with sharingTaxi”, Civil Eng. Society, Japan, August, 2018.
Tsutomu Tsuboi, “Traffic Service Quantitative Analysis Method under Developing Country”, ICACCI, India, September,2018.
Tsutomu Tsuboi, “Dynamic Macro Numeric Analysis of Fatal Traffic Accident”, ICACCI, India, September, 2018.
Takashi Hiraide, Tomoya Kawasaki, Shinya Hanaoka, “Clarification of Public Transport Usage Conditions inAhmedabad, India”, Urban Transport and the Environment, Spain, September, 2018.
Tsutomu Tsuboi, “Traffic Congestion Visualization by Traffic Parameters in India”, Czech, March, 2019.
Anand Kakarla, Ryohei Hashimoto, Tetsuhiro Ishizaka, Atsushi Fukuda, “Exploring the Affect of Mixed Traffic Zones
on BRTS: A case study on Ahmedabad BRTS” World Conference on Transport Research - WCTR 2019 Mumbai 26-31
May 2019 (accepted).

Workshop papers⚫

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Suhel Magdum, Mehul Sharma, Srikant Manas Kala, Antony Franklin A, and Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma, "EvaluatingDTN Routing Schemes forApplication in Vehicular Networks", in Proc. of 5th workshop on Intelligent Transportation
Systems (ITS), co-located with COMSNETS, Bengaluru, India, January 2019.
Subrahmanyam Kalyanasundaram, M. V. Panduranga Rao, and Thamilselvam B, "Coordinated Intelligent Traffic Lightusing Uppaal Stratego", in Proc. of 5th workshop on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), co-located withCOMSNETS, Bengaluru, India, January, 2019.

Posters
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Tsutomu Tsuboi, “Quantitative Analysis Method of Traffic Service by Traffic Congestion under Developing Country”,
ISTS&IWTDCS, Japan, August, 2018.
Atsushi Fukuda, “SATREPS: Smart Cities for Emerging Countries based on Sensing, Network and Big Data Analysis ofMultimodal Regional Transport System “Japan Association for Human and Environment Symposium, Japan,
September, 2018.
Tsutomu Tsuboi, “Traffic Flow and Vehicular Lanes Effect Analysis in Emerging Country”, Spain, November, 2018.
Mehul Sharma, Suhel Magdum, Antony Franklin A, Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma, and Digvijay S. Pawar, "VISIBLE:Application for Vehicle Visibility and Incident Reporting in Real-Time", in Proc. Of Internet Conference, Tokyo, Japan,
November 2018.
Ryohei Hashimoto and Anand Kakarla, "Analyzing the effect of variation of intersection delays on total travel time in
Bus Rapid Transit Systems", Honda Y-E-S Forum, Tokyo, Japan, July, 2018.

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