Overtaking Rule Method for the Cleaning of Matched License-Plate Data
Publication: Journal of Transportation Engineering
Volume 132, Issue 8
Abstract
In recent years automatic number plate recognition systems have been increasingly used to monitor urban link travel time. However, the set of travel times produced will contain erroneous records for a variety of reasons including the misreading of the licence plates by the camera, vehicles stopping en-route, and vehicles taking nondirect routes between the two camera sites. This paper proposes a novel technique called the overtaking rule, which uses the serial temporal structure of the data to filter out these erroneous travel time records. The paper proposes a methodology to measure the performance of a licence plate cleaning method, and it is subsequently shown that the overtaking rule outperforms existing cleaning methods.
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Journal of Transportation Engineering
Volume 132 • Issue 8 • August 2006
Pages: 609 - 617
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© 2006 ASCE.
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Received: Sep 14, 2004
Accepted: May 23, 2005
Published online: Aug 1, 2006
Published in print: Aug 2006
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