Collecting Traffic Video Data Using Portable Poles: Survey, Proposal, and Analysis
Channel: Harry Lahrmann
Date: 2018-10-08

Several initiatives have been launched to help prevention of traffic accidents
and near-accidents across the European Union. To aid the overall goal of reducing
deaths and injuries related to traffic, one must understand the causation
of the traffic accidents in order to prevent them. Rather than deploying a
person to physically monitor a location, the task is eased by camera equipment
installed in existing infrastructure, e.g. poles, and buildings, etc. In rural
areas there is however a very limited infrastructure available which complicates
the data acquisition. But even if there is infrastructure available in either
the rural area or the urban area, this might not serve as an ideal position to
capture video data from. In this work, we survey and provide an overview of
available and relevant portable poles setups with respect to capturing data in
both urban areas and rural areas. The conclusion of the survey shows a lack
of a mobile, lightweight, compact, and easy deployable portable pole. We
therefore design and develop a new portable pole meeting these requirements.
The new proposed portable pole can be deployed by 2 persons in 2
hours in both rural areas as well as urban areas due to its compactness. The
deployment and usage of the new portable pole is a complimentary tool,
which may improve the camera capturing angle in case existing infrastructure
is insufficient. This ultimately improves the traffic monitoring opportunities.
Further, the survey of selected portable poles provides an excellent overview
and can aid multiple applications within road traffic.
More on: https://doi.org/10.4236/jtts.2018.84021