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		<title><![CDATA[ Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on - new TOC ]]></title>
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		<description>TOC Alert for Publication# 6979 </description>
		<year>2013</year>
		<month>May      </month>
		<day>21</day>
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			<title><![CDATA[Table of Contents]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6470719]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Presents the table of contents for this issue of the periodical.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
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			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>C1</startPage>
			<endPage>C4</endPage>
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			<title><![CDATA[IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems publication information]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6470723]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Provides a listing of current staff, committee members and society officers.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6470723]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>C2</startPage>
			<endPage>C2</endPage>
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			<title><![CDATA[An Adaptive Longitudinal Driving Assistance System Based on Driver Characteristics]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6236181]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[A prototype of a longitudinal driving-assistance system, which is adaptive to driver behavior, is developed. Its functions include adaptive cruise control and forward collision warning/avoidance. The research data came from driver car-following tests in real traffic environments. Based on the data analysis, a driver model imitating the driver's operation is established to generate the desired throttle depression and braking pressure. Algorithms for collision warning and automatic braking activation are designed based on the driver's pedal deflection timing during approach (gap closing). A self-learning algorithm for driver characteristics is proposed based on the recursive least-square method with a forgetting factor. Using this algorithm, the parameters of the driver model can be identified from the data in the manual operation phase, and the identification result is applied during the automatic control phase in real time. A test bed with an electronic throttle and an electrohydraulic brake actuator is developed for system validation. The experimental results show that the self-learning algorithm is effective and that the system can, to some extent, adapt to individual characteristics.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6236181]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>1</startPage>
			<endPage>12</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Wang, J.;Zhang, L.;Zhang, D.;Li, K.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Stochastic Lane Shape Estimation Using Local Image Descriptors]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6236178]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[In this paper, we present a novel measurement model for particle-filter-based lane shape estimation. Recently, the particle filter has been widely used to solve lane detection and tracking problems, due to its simplicity, robustness, and efficiency. The key part of the particle filter is the measurement model, which describes how well a generated hypothesis (a particle) fits current visual cues in the image. Previous methods often simply combine multiple visual cues in a likelihood function without considering the uncertainties of local visual cues and the accurate probability relationship between visual cues and the lane model. In contrast, this paper derives a new measurement model by utilizing multiple kernel density to precisely estimate this probability relationship. The uncertainties of local visual cues are considered and modeled by Gaussian kernels. Specifically, we use a linear-parabolic model to describe the shape of lane boundaries on a top-view image and a partitioned particle filter (PPF), integrating it with our novel measurement model to estimate lane shapes in consecutive frames. Finally, the robustness of the proposed algorithm with the new measurement model is demonstrated on the DRIVSCO data sets.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6236178]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>13</startPage>
			<endPage>21</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Liu, G.;Worgotter, F.;Markelic, I.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Distributed Modeling in a MapReduce Framework for Data-Driven Traffic Flow Forecasting]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6236176]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[With the availability of increasingly more new data sources collected for transportation in recent years, the computational effort for traffic flow forecasting in standalone modes has become increasingly demanding for large-scale networks. Distributed modeling strategies can be utilized to reduce the computational effort. In this paper, we present a MapReduce-based approach to processing distributed data to design a MapReduce framework of a traffic forecasting system, including its system architecture and data-processing algorithms. The work presented here can be applied to many traffic forecasting systems with models requiring a learning process (e.g., the neural network approach). We show that the learning process of the forecasting model under our framework can be accelerated from a computational perspective. Meanwhile, model fusion, which is the key problem of distributed modeling, is explicitly treated in this paper to enhance the capability of the forecasting system in data processing and storage.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6236176]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>22</startPage>
			<endPage>33</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Chen, C.;Liu, Z.;Lin, W.-H.;Li, S.;Wang, K.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Vehicle Positioning Using GSM and Cascade-Connected ANN Structures]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6253263]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Procuring location information for intelligent transportation systems is a popular topic among researchers. This paper investigates the vehicle location algorithm based on the received signal strength (RSS) from available Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) networks. The performances of positioning models, which consisted of cascade-connected (C-C) artificial neural network (ANN) multilayer feedforward structures employing the space-partitioning principle, are compared with the single-ANN multilayer feedforward model in terms of accuracy, the number of subspaces, and other positioning relevant parameters. C-C ANN structures make use of the fact that a vehicle can be found only in a subspace of the entire environment (roads) to improve the positioning accuracy. The best-performing C-C ANN structure achieved an average error of 26 m and a median error of less than 5 m, which is accurate enough for most of the vehicle location services. Using the same RSS database obtained by measurements, it was shown that the proposed model outperforms <formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">$khbox{NN}$</tex></formula> and extended Kalman filter (EKF)-trained ANN positioning algorithms. Moreover, the presented ANN structures replace not only the positioning algorithms but the overloaded map-matching process as well.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6253263]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>34</startPage>
			<endPage>46</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Borenovic, M.;Neskovic, A.;Neskovic, N.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Relative Positioning Enhancement in VANETs: A Tight Integration Approach]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6236174]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Position information is a fundamental requirement for many vehicular applications such as navigation, intelligent transportation systems (ITSs), collision avoidance, and location-based services (LBSs). Relative positioning is effective for many applications, including collision avoidance and LBSs. Although Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs) can be used for absolute or relative positioning, the level of accuracy does not meet the requirements of many applications. Cooperative positioning (CP) techniques, fusing data from different sources, can be used to improve the performance of absolute or relative positioning in a vehicular ad hoc network (VANET). VANET CP systems are mostly based on radio ranging, which is not viable, despite being assumed in much of the literature. Considering this and emerging vehicular communication technologies, a CP method is presented to improve the relative positioning between two vehicles within a VANET, fusing the available low-level Global Positioning System (GPS) data. The proposed method depends on no radio ranging technique. The performance of the proposed method is verified by analytical and experimental results. Although the principles of the proposed method are similar to those of differential solutions such as differential GPS (DGPS), the proposed technique outperforms DGPS with about 37% and 45% enhancement in accuracy and precision of relative positioning, respectively.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6236174]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>47</startPage>
			<endPage>55</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Alam, N.;Tabatabaei Balaei, A.;Dempster, A.G.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Predictive Prevention of Loss of Vehicle Control for Roadway Departure Avoidance]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6252041]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[In this paper, we investigate predictive approaches to the problem of roadway departure prevention via automated steering and braking. We assume a sensing infrastructure detecting road geometry and consider a two-layer accident avoidance framework consisting of a threat assessment and an intervention layer. A novel active safety function for prevention of loss of vehicle control is proposed and implemented using the considered accident avoidance framework. Simulation and experimental results are presented, showing that the proposed approach effectively exploits road preview information to prevent the vehicle from operating in regions of the state space where standard electronic stability control systems are normally activated.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6252041]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>56</startPage>
			<endPage>68</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Ali, M.;Falcone, P.;Olsson, C.;Sjoberg, J.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Classification and Counting of Composite Objects in Traffic Scenes Using Global and Local Image Analysis]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6291788]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Object recognition algorithms often focus on determining the class of a detected object in a scene. Two significant phases are usually involved in object recognition. The first phase is the object representation phase, in which the most suitable features that provide the best discriminative power under constraints such as lighting, resolution, scale, and view variations are chosen to describe the objects. The second phase is to use this representation space to develop models for each object class using discriminative classifiers. In this paper, we focus on composite objects, i.e., objects with two or more simpler classes that are interconnected in a complicated manner. One classic example of such a scenario is a bicyclist. A bicyclist consists of a bicycle and a human who rides the bicycle. When we are faced with the task of classifying bicyclists and pedestrians, it is counterintuitive and often hard to come up with a discriminative classifier to distinguish the two classes. We explore global image analysis based on bag of visual words to compare the results with local image analysis, in which we attempt to distinguish the individual parts of the composite object. We also propose a unified naive Bayes framework and a combined histogram feature method for combining the individual classifiers for enhanced performance.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6291788]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>69</startPage>
			<endPage>81</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Somasundaram, G.;Sivalingam, R.;Morellas, V.;Papanikolopoulos, N.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[VIP-WAVE: On the Feasibility of IP Communications in 802.11p Vehicular Networks]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6249781]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Vehicular communication networks, such as the 802.11p and Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE) technologies, are becoming a fundamental platform for providing real-time access to safety and entertainment information. In particular, infotainment applications and, consequently, IP-based communications, are key to leverage market penetration and deployment costs of the 802.11p/WAVE network. However, the operation and performance of IP in 802.11p/WAVE are still unclear as the WAVE standard guidelines for being IP compliant are rather minimal. This paper studies the 802.11p/WAVE standard and its limitations for the support of infrastructure-based IP applications, and proposes the Vehicular IP in WAVE (VIP-WAVE) framework. VIP-WAVE defines the IP configuration for extended and non-extended IP services, and a mobility management scheme supported by Proxy Mobile IPv6 over WAVE. It also exploits multi-hop communications to improve the network performance along roads with different levels of infrastructure presence. Furthermore, an analytical model considering mobility, handoff delays, collisions, and channel conditions is developed for evaluating the performance of IP communications in WAVE. Extensive simulations are performed to demonstrate the accuracy of our analytical model and the effectiveness of VIP-WAVE in making feasible the deployment of IP applications in the vehicular network.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6249781]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>82</startPage>
			<endPage>97</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Cespedes, S.;Lu, N.;Shen, X.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Modeling and Analysis of Driving Behavior Based on a Probability-Weighted ARX Model]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6256731]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[This paper proposes a probability-weighted autoregressive exogenous (PrARX) model wherein the multiple ARX models are composed of the probabilistic weighting functions. This model can represent both the motion-control and decision-making aspects of the driving behavior. As the probabilistic weighting function, a &#x201C;softmax&#x201D; function is introduced. Then, the parameter estimation problem for the proposed model is formulated as a single optimization problem. The &#x201C;soft&#x201D; partition defined by the PrARX model can represent the decision-making characteristics of the driver with vagueness. This vagueness can be quantified by introducing the &#x201C;decision entropy.&#x201D; In addition, it can be easily extended to the online estimation scheme due to its small computational cost. Finally, the proposed model is applied to the modeling of the vehicle-following task, and the usefulness of the model is verified and discussed.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6256731]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>98</startPage>
			<endPage>112</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Okuda, H.;Ikami, N.;Suzuki, T.;Tazaki, Y.;Takeda, K.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Land-Use Classification Using Taxi GPS Traces]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6266748]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Detailed land use, which is difficult to obtain, is an integral part of urban planning. Currently, GPS traces of vehicles are becoming readily available. It conveys human mobility and activity information, which can be closely related to the land use of a region. This paper discusses the potential use of taxi traces for urban land-use classification, particularly for recognizing the social function of urban land by using one year's trace data from 4000 taxis. First, we found that pick-up/set-down dynamics, extracted from taxi traces, exhibited clear patterns corresponding to the land-use classes of these regions. Second, with six features designed to characterize the pick-up/set-down pattern, land-use classes of regions could be recognized. Classification results using the best combination of features achieved a recognition accuracy of 95%. Third, the classification results also highlighted regions that changed land-use class from one to another, and such land-use class transition dynamics of regions revealed unusual real-world social events. Moreover, the pick-up/set-down dynamics could further reflect to what extent each region is used as a certain class.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6266748]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>113</startPage>
			<endPage>123</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Pan, G.;Qi, G.;Wu, Z.;Zhang, D.;Li, S.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[On Secure VANET-Based Ad Dissemination With Pragmatic Cost and Effect Control]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6244882]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Allowing commercial service providers (SPs) to promote their businesses, ad dissemination in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) shows great application potential. In this paper, a VANET-based Ambient Ad-Dissemination scheme (VAAD) is proposed to support secure ad disseminations with pragmatic cost and effect control. VAAD provides an incentive-centered architecture for the involved parties to trade off their conflicting requirements regarding ad dissemination. Given realistic advertising effect and cost requirements of an SP, VAAD adopts a distance-based gradient ad dissemination algorithm to maximize the achievable ad effect by emulating the ad-posting patterns in the physical world. To facilitate vehicular nodes' participation in VAAD, efficient, secure, and privacy-preserving incentive cash-in is ensured to support financial transactions in VAAD. Thus, with proper cost and effect control, VAAD is a novel and comprehensive solution to secure ad dissemination in VANETs.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6244882]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>124</startPage>
			<endPage>135</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Li, Z.;Liu, C.;Chigan, C.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Changes in the Correlation Between Eye and Steering Movements Indicate Driver Distraction]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6270003]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Driver distraction represents an increasingly important contributor to crashes and fatalities. Technology that can detect and mitigate distraction by alerting distracted drivers could play a central role in maintaining safety. Based on either eye measures or driver performance measures, numerous algorithms to detect distraction have been developed. Combining both eye glance and vehicle data could enhance distraction detection. The goal of this paper is to evaluate whether changes in the eye&#x2013;steering correlation structure can indicate distraction. Drivers performed visual, cognitive, and cognitive/visual tasks while driving in a simulator. The auto- and cross-correlations of horizontal eye position and steering wheel angle show that eye movements associated with road scanning produce a low eye&#x2013;steering correlation. However, even this weak correlation is sensitive to distraction. Time lead associated with the maximum correlation is sensitive to all three types of distraction, and the maximum correlation coefficient is most strongly affected by off-road glances. These results demonstrate that eye&#x2013;steering correlation statistics can detect distraction and differentiate between types of distraction.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6270003]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>136</startPage>
			<endPage>145</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Yekhshatyan, L.;Lee, J.D.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Front Sensor and GPS-Based Lateral Control of Automated Vehicles]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6255790]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[This work proposes an automated steering control system for passenger cars. Feasibility of a control strategy based on a front sensor and a Global Positioning System (GPS) has been evaluated using computer simulations. First, the steering angles can be estimated by using the driving data provided by the front sensor and GPS. Second, the road curvature estimator for real-time situation is designed based on its relationship with the steering angle. Third, accurate and real-time estimation of the vehicle's lateral displacements with respect to the road is accomplished. Finally, a closed-loop controller is used to control the lateral dynamics of the vehicle. The proposed estimation and control algorithms are validated by computer simulation results. They show that this lateral steering control system achieves good and robust performance for vehicles to follow a reference path.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6255790]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>146</startPage>
			<endPage>154</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Yang, J.;Hou, E.;Zhou, M.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Automatic Road Crack Detection and Characterization]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6262477]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[A fully integrated system for the automatic detection and characterization of cracks in road flexible pavement surfaces, which does not require manually labeled samples, is proposed to minimize the human subjectivity resulting from traditional visual surveys. The first task addressed, i.e., crack detection, is based on a learning from samples paradigm, where a subset of the available image database is automatically selected and used for unsupervised training of the system. The system classifies nonoverlapping image blocks as either containing crack pixels or not. The second task deals with crack type characterization, for which another classification system is constructed, to characterize the detected cracks' connect components. Cracks are labeled according to the types defined in the Portuguese Distress Catalog, with each different crack present in a given image receiving the appropriate label. Moreover, a novel methodology for the assignment of crack severity levels is introduced, computing an estimate for the width of each detected crack. Experimental crack detection and characterization results are presented based on images captured during a visual road pavement surface survey over Portuguese roads, with promising results. This is shown by the quantitative evaluation methodology introduced for the evaluation of this type of system, including a comparison with human experts' manual labeling results.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6262477]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>155</startPage>
			<endPage>168</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Oliveira, H.;Correia, P.L.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Model-Independent Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Output Tracking Control of 4WS4WD Road Vehicles]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6297474]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[This paper investigates the path-tracking control problem of four-wheel-steering and four-wheel-driving (4WS4WD) road vehicles. Of particular interest is the development of an adaptive and fault-tolerant tracking control scheme capable of compensating vehicle uncertain dynamics/disturbances and actuation failures simultaneously. Control algorithms are derived without requiring detail system dynamic information. The control scheme is shown to be effective in coping with unexpected actuation faults without the need for analytically estimating bound on actuator failure variables. The proposed method is validated and demonstrated through its application to a wheeled vehicle with four steering wheels and four driving wheels, where high-precision path tracking is achieved in the face of steering faults.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6297474]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>169</startPage>
			<endPage>179</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Li, D.-Y.;Song, Y.-D.;Huang, D.;Chen, H.-N.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Aircraft Ground-Taxiing Model for Congested Airport Using Cellular Automata]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6248222]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Efficient airport surface operation is considered key to successful implementation of 4-D trajectories. Here, an airport surface aircraft model is developed to improve simulation accuracy. The new simulation method is developed based on the Nagel&#x2013;Schreckenberg (NS) model, which is a car congestion model, and it considers the taxiing speed and the time histories of taxiing, particularly for a heavy traffic environment. To validate the model, airport surface surveillance data at Tokyo International Airport are used, and it is proven that the congestion phenomenon is modeled well with an average accuracy of about 30 s.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6248222]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>180</startPage>
			<endPage>188</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Mori, R.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Computational Traffic Experiments Based on Artificial Transportation Systems: An Application of ACP Approach]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6301726]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Artificial societies, Computational experiments, and Parallel execution (ACP) approach provides us an opportunity to look into new methods that address transportation problems from new perspectives. In this paper, we present our work and results of applying the ACP approach on modeling and analyzing transportation systems, particularly carrying out computational experiments based on artificial transportation systems (ATSs). Two aspects in the modeling process are analyzed. The first is growing an ATS from the bottom up using agent-based technologies. The second is modeling environmental impacts under the principle of &#x201C;simple is consistent.&#x201D; Finally, three computational experiments are carried out on one specific ATS, i.e., Jinan-ATS, and numerical results are presented to illustrate the applications of our method.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6301726]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>189</startPage>
			<endPage>198</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[ZHU, F.;Wen, D.;Chen, S.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[BAHG: Back-Bone-Assisted Hop Greedy Routing for VANET's City Environments]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6291789]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Using advanced wireless local area network technologies, vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) have become viable and valuable for their wide variety of novel applications, such as road safety, multimedia content sharing, commerce on wheels, etc. Multihop information dissemination in VANETs is constrained by the high mobility of vehicles and the frequent disconnections. Currently, geographic routing protocols are widely adopted for VANETs as they do not require route construction and route maintenance phases. Again, with connectivity awareness, they perform well in terms of reliable delivery. To obtain destination position, some protocols use flooding, which can be detrimental in city environments. Further, in the case of sparse and void regions, frequent use of the recovery strategy elevates hop count. Some geographic routing protocols adopt the minimum weighted algorithm based on distance or connectivity to select intermediate intersections. However, the shortest path or the path with higher connectivity may include numerous intermediate intersections. As a result, these protocols yield routing paths with higher hop count. In this paper, we propose a hop greedy routing scheme that yields a routing path with the minimum number of intermediate intersection nodes while taking connectivity into consideration. Moreover, we introduce back-bone nodes that play a key role in providing connectivity status around an intersection. Apart from this, by tracking the movement of source as well as destination, the back-bone nodes enable a packet to be forwarded in the changed direction. Simulation results signify the benefits of the proposed routing strategy in terms of high packet delivery ratio and shorter end-to-end delay.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6291789]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>199</startPage>
			<endPage>213</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Sahu, P.K.;Wu, E.H.-K.;Sahoo, J.;Gerla, M.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Heterogeneous Delay Embedding for Travel Time and Energy Cost Prediction Via Regression Analysis]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6272361]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[In this paper, we study travel time and energy cost prediction at any future departure time for a targeted road segment and vehicle. These two prediction tasks play an important part in the design of advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) that can automatically manage battery charging, energy saving, and route planning for fully electric vehicles. Compared with the fundamental problem of travel time prediction, which usually learns from the historical and current data of travel time itself, energy cost prediction is a more complex problem that involves multiple context conditions and vehicle status measured by various time-invariant and time-variant data. We define a general learning problem based on multiple time-invariant and time-variant inputs to unify these two prediction tasks. To solve the defined learning problem, we propose heterogeneous delay embedding (HDE), which extracts an informative feature space for regression analysis and aims at achieving satisfactory prediction for any future departure time. The proposed HDE first categorizes the historical and current data of a time-variant measurement into different types, then incorporates different delay settings for embedding multiple types of time-series data, and finally removes redundant information and noise from the generated features using orthogonal locality preserving projection. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method for both short- and long-term predictions of travel time and energy cost.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6272361]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>214</startPage>
			<endPage>224</endPage>
			<fileSize>1426</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Mu, T.;Jiang, J.;Wang, Y.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Parallel Traffic Management System and Its Application to the 2010 Asian Games]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6298010]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Field data are important for convenient daily travel of urban residents, reducing traffic congestion and accidents, pursuing a low-carbon environment-friendly sustainable development strategy, and meeting the extra peak traffic demand of large sporting events or large business activities, etc. To meet the field data demand during the 2010 Asian (Para) Games held in Guangzhou, China, based on the novel Artificial systems, Computational experiments, and Parallel execution (ACP) approach, the Parallel Traffic Management System (PtMS) was developed. It successfully helps to achieve smoothness, safety, efficiency, and reliability of public transport management during the two games, supports public traffic management and decision making, and helps enhance the public traffic management level from experience-based policy formulation and manual implementation to scientific computing-based policy formulation and implementation. The PtMS represents another new milestone in solving the management difficulty of real-world complex systems.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6298010]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>225</startPage>
			<endPage>235</endPage>
			<fileSize>1088</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Xiong, G.;Dong, X.;Fan, D.;ZHU, F.;Wang, K.;Lv, Y.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Task Assignment Algorithm for Multiple Aerial Vehicles to Attack Targets With Dynamic Values]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6290396]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[A good task assignment is an important guarantee to achieve great combat effectiveness. This paper investigates the task assignment problem, where the value of the targets is time changing in the battlefield, and presents a solution approach that is a combination of two algorithms: the multidestination route planning algorithm based on dynamic programming and the multisubgroup ant colony algorithm (MSACO). The two algorithms coordinately solve the task assignment problem. The route planning algorithm can obtain available routes between any two targets and provide reasonable routing information for MSACO. Then, the ant colony algorithm is applied to solve the task assignment problem. To solve the task assignment problem in the battlefield environment, several key technologies are introduced to improve the traditional ant colony algorithm, which include the subgroup selection strategy, the dynamic candidate aggregate policy, the state transferring policy, and the information-element updating mechanism. Simulation results show that the proposed approach can produce a reasonable and available plan for all the test cases in short computational time.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6290396]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>236</startPage>
			<endPage>248</endPage>
			<fileSize>1666</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Zhong, L.;Luo, Q.;Wen, D.;Qiao, S.;Shi, J.;Zhang, W.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[New paradigms for the integration of yaw stability and rollover prevention functions in vehicle stability control]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6303917]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[The integration of rollover prevention and yaw stability control objectives in electronic stability control (ESC) has traditionally been done based on a priority calculation. The control system nominally focuses on yaw stability control until a danger of rollover is detected. When a danger of rollover is detected, the control system switches from yaw stability control to rollover prevention. This paper focuses on an integrated ESC system wherein the objectives of yaw stability and rollover prevention are addressed simultaneously, rather than one at a time. First, we show that staying on a desired planar trajectory at a specified speed results in an invariant rollover index. This implies that rollover prevention can be achieved whenever there is a danger of rollover only by reducing vehicle speed, since changing the desired vehicle trajectory is not a desirable option. In this regard, it is shown that a vehicle that reduces its speed before entering a sharp curve performs significantly better than a vehicle that uses differential braking during the turn for yaw stability control. Second, this paper explores how the use of steer-by-wire technology can address the tradeoff between yaw stability, speed, and rollover prevention performance. It is shown that the use of traditional steer-by-wire simply as an additional actuator cannot by itself ameliorate the tradeoff. However, this tradeoff can be eliminated if steer-by-wire is used to invert the direction of the roll angle of the vehicle. A new steer-by-wire algorithm that uses transient countersteering is shown to change the location of the rollover dynamics from the neighborhood of an unstable to a stable equilibrium. In this case, a desired trajectory can indeed be achieved by the vehicle at the same speed with a much smaller danger of rollover. This is a novel and viable approach to integrating the yaw stability and rollover prevention functions and eliminating the inherent tradeoffs in the performance of both.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6303917]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>249</startPage>
			<endPage>261</endPage>
			<fileSize>1672</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Rajamani, R.;Piyabongkarn, D.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[GPS Localization Accuracy Classification: A Context-Based Approach]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6295661]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Global Positioning System (GPS) localization has been attracting attention recently in various areas, including intelligent transportation systems (ITSs), navigation systems, road tolling, smart parking, and collision avoidance. Although, various approaches for improving localization accuracy have been reported in the literature, there is still a need for more efficient and more effective measures that can ascribe some level of accuracy to the localization process. These measures will enable localization systems to manage the localization process and resources to achieve the highest accuracy possible and to mitigate the impact of inadequate accuracy on the target application. The localization accuracy of any GPS system depends heavily on both the technique it uses to compute locations and the measurement conditions in its surroundings. However, while localization techniques have recently started to demonstrate significant improvement in localization performance, they continue to be severely impacted by the measurement conditions in their environment. Indeed, the impact of the measurement conditions on the localization accuracy in itself is an ill-conditioned problem due to the incongruent nature of the measurement process. This paper proposes a scheme to address localization accuracy estimation. This scheme involves two steps, namely, measurement condition disambiguation and enhanced location accuracy classification. Real-life comparative experiments are presented to demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed scheme in classifying GPS localization accuracy under various measurement conditions.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6295661]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>262</startPage>
			<endPage>273</endPage>
			<fileSize>2158</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Drawil, N.M.;Amar, H.M.;Basir, O.A.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Virtual Prototyping of an Electric Power Steering Simulator]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6287024]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[This paper presents a simulation tool for an electrical steering system whose aim is twofold: 1) to investigate the possibility of designing a minimum clearance mechatronic platform with sensorless control methods and 2) to evaluate assistance torque control feedback by considering technological specifications and human factor consideration. The choice has been made for a driving simulator having at least a real steering system with an electrical power steering (EPS) device and an adequate motor to reproduce the rack load force resulting from tire/road contact, as in a real driving situation. These components are gathered to form a virtual simulator platform, which serves as a basis for future realization. Our main contributions concern the vehicle's front assembly kinematics modeling and the evaluation of the load rack force resulting from tire/road interaction. In addition, a real application of the most recent virtual sensor algorithms, arising from the sliding-mode observer theory for states and unknown input estimation, is described.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6287024]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>274</startPage>
			<endPage>283</endPage>
			<fileSize>1278</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Nehaoua, L.;Djemai, M.;Pudlo, P.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Security Challenges in Vehicular Cloud Computing]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6294446]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[In a series of recent papers, Prof. Olariu and his co-workers have promoted the vision of vehicular clouds (VCs), a nontrivial extension, along several dimensions, of conventional cloud computing. In a VC, underutilized vehicular resources including computing power, storage, and Internet connectivity can be shared between drivers or rented out over the Internet to various customers. Clearly, if the VC concept is to see a wide adoption and to have significant societal impact, security and privacy issues need to be addressed. The main contribution of this work is to identify and analyze a number of security challenges and potential privacy threats in VCs. Although security issues have received attention in cloud computing and vehicular networks, we identify security challenges that are specific to VCs, e.g., challenges of authentication of high-mobility vehicles, scalability and single interface, tangled identities and locations, and the complexity of establishing trust relationships among multiple players caused by intermittent short-range communications. Additionally, we provide a security scheme that addresses several of the challenges discussed.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6294446]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>284</startPage>
			<endPage>294</endPage>
			<fileSize>817</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Yan, G.;Wen, D.;Olariu, S.;Weigle, M.C.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Spatio-Temporal Traffic Scene Modeling for Object Motion Detection]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6334455]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Moving object detection is an important component of a traffic surveillance system. Usual background subtraction approaches often poorly perform on a long outdoor traffic video due to vehicles waiting at an intersection and gradual changes of illumination and background shadow position. We present a fast and robust background subtraction algorithm based on unified spatio-temporal background and foreground modeling. The correlation between neighboring pixels provides high levels of detection accuracy in the dynamic background scene. Our Bayesian fusion method, which establishes the traffic scene model, combines both background and foreground models and considers prior probabilities to adapt changes of background in each frame. We explicitly model both temporal and spatial information based on the kernel density estimation (KDE) formulation for background modeling. Then, we use a Gaussian formulation to describe the spatial correlation of moving objects for foreground modeling. In the updating step, a fusion background frame is generated, and reasonable updating rates are also proposed for the traffic scene. The experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms the previous work with less computation and is better suited for the traffic scenes.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6334455]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>295</startPage>
			<endPage>302</endPage>
			<fileSize>967</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Hao, J.;Li, C.;Kim, Z.;Xiong, Z.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Automatic Calibration Method for Driver's Head Orientation in Natural Driving Environment]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6310062]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Gaze tracking is crucial for studying driver's attention, detecting fatigue, and improving driver assistance systems, but it is difficult in natural driving environments due to nonuniform and highly variable illumination and large head movements. Traditional calibrations that require subjects to follow calibrators are very cumbersome to be implemented in daily driving situations. A new automatic calibration method, based on a single camera for determining the head orientation and which utilizes the side mirrors, the rear-view mirror, the instrument board, and different zones in the windshield as calibration points, is presented in this paper. Supported by a self-learning algorithm, the system tracks the head and categorizes the head pose in 12 gaze zones based on facial features. The particle filter is used to estimate the head pose to obtain an accurate gaze zone by updating the calibration parameters. Experimental results show that, after several hours of driving, the automatic calibration method without driver's corporation can achieve the same accuracy as a manual calibration method. The mean error of estimated eye gazes was less than 5<formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">$^{circ}$</tex></formula> in day and night driving.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6310062]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>303</startPage>
			<endPage>312</endPage>
			<fileSize>886</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Fu, X.;Guan, X.;Peli, E.;Liu, H.;Luo, G.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[GNSS/Cellular Hybrid Positioning System for Mobile Users in Urban Scenarios]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6307871]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[This paper proposes a hybrid scheme for user positioning in an urban scenario using both a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and a mobile cellular network. To maintain receiver complexity (and costs) at a minimum, the location scheme combines the time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA) technique measurements obtained from the cellular network with GNNS pseudorange measurements. The extended Kalman filter (EKF) algorithm is used as a data integration system over the time axis. Simulated results, which are obtained starting from real measurements, demonstrate that the use of cellular network data may provide increased location accuracy when the number of visible satellites is not adequate. In every case, the obtained accuracy is within the limits required by emergency location services, e.g., Enhanced 911 (E911).]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6307871]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>313</startPage>
			<endPage>321</endPage>
			<fileSize>983</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[De Angelis, G.;Baruffa, G.;Cacopardi, S.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Reliable Classification of Vehicle Types Based on Cascade Classifier Ensembles]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6295662]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Vehicle-type recognition based on images is a challenging task. This paper comparatively studied two feature extraction methods for image description, i.e., the Gabor wavelet transform and the Pyramid Histogram of Oriented Gradients (PHOG). The Gabor transform has been widely adopted to extract image features for various vision tasks. PHOG has the superiority in its description of more discriminating information. A highly reliable classification scheme was proposed by cascade classifier ensembles with reject option to accommodate the situations where no decision should be made if there exists adequate ambiguity. The first ensemble is heterogeneous, consisting of several classifiers, including <formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">$k$</tex></formula>-nearest neighbors (kNNs), multiple-layer perceptrons (MLPs), support vector machines (SVMs), and random forest. The classification reliability is further enhanced by a second classifier ensemble, which is composed of a set of base MLPs coordinated by an ensemble metalearning method called rotation forest (RF). For both of the ensembles, rejection option is accomplished by relating the consensus degree from majority voting to a confidence measure and by abstaining to classify ambiguous samples if the consensus degree is lower than a threshold. The final class label is assigned by dual majority voting from the two ensembles. Experimental results using more than 600 images from a variety of 21 makes of cars and vans demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed approach. The cascade ensembles produce consistently reliable results. With a moderate ensemble size of 25 in the second ensemble, the two-stage classification scheme offers 98.65% accuracy with a rejection rate of 2.5%, exhibiting promising potential for real-world applications.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6295662]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>322</startPage>
			<endPage>332</endPage>
			<fileSize>744</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Zhang, B.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Highly Automated Driving on Highways Based on Legal Safety]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6361481]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[This paper discusses driving system design based on traffic rules. This allows fully automated driving in an environment with human drivers, without necessarily changing equipment on other vehicles or infrastructure. It also facilitates cooperation between the driving system and the host driver during highly automated driving. The concept, referred to as legal safety, is illustrated for highly automated driving on highways with distance keeping, intelligent speed adaptation, and lane-changing functionalities. Requirements by legal safety on perception and control components are discussed. This paper presents the actual design of a legal safety decision component, which predicts object trajectories and calculates optimal subject trajectories. System implementation on automotive electronic control units and results on vehicle and simulator are discussed.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6361481]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>333</startPage>
			<endPage>347</endPage>
			<fileSize>1465</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Vanholme, B.;Gruyer, D.;Lusetti, B.;Glaser, S.;Mammar, S.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Optimal Perimeter Control for Two Urban Regions With Macroscopic Fundamental Diagrams: A Model Predictive Approach]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6353591]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Recent analysis of empirical data from cities showed that a macroscopic fundamental diagram (MFD) of urban traffic provides for homogenous network regions a unimodal low-scatter relationship between network vehicle density and network space-mean flow. In this paper, the optimal perimeter control for two-region urban cities is formulated with the use of MFDs. The controllers operate on the border between the two regions and manipulate the percentages of flows that transfer between the two regions such that the number of trips that reach their destinations is maximized. The optimal perimeter control problem is solved by model predictive control, where the prediction model and the plant (reality) are formulated by MFDs. Examples are presented for different levels of congestion in the regions of the city and the robustness of the controller is tested for different sizes of error in the MFDs and different levels of noise in the traffic demand. Moreover, two methods for smoothing the control sequences are presented. Comparison results show that the performances of the model predictive control are significantly better than a &#x201C;greedy&#x201D; feedback control. The results in this paper can be extended to develop efficient hierarchical control strategies for heterogeneously congested cities.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6353591]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>348</startPage>
			<endPage>359</endPage>
			<fileSize>2066</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Geroliminis, N.;Haddad, J.;Ramezani, M.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dynamic Journeying in Scheduled Networks]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6293897]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[We study a dynamic-journey planning problem for multimodal transportation networks. The goal is to find a journey, possibly involving transfers between different transport modes, from a given origin to a given destination within a specified time horizon. Transport services are represented as sequences of scheduled legs between nodes in the transportation network. Due to uncertainty in transport services, we assume for each pair of adjacent legs <formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">$i$</tex></formula> and <formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">$j$</tex></formula> a probability of a successful transfer from <formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">$i$</tex></formula> to <formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">$j$</tex></formula>. If a transfer between two legs is unsuccessful, the customer needs to reconsider the remaining path to the destination. The problem is modeled as a Markov decision process, and the main contribution is a backward induction algorithm that generates an optimal policy for traversing the public transport network in terms of a given objective, e.g., reliability, ride time, waiting time, walking time, or the number of transfers. A straightforward method for maximizing reliability is also suggested, and the algorithms are tested on real-life Helsinki area public transport data. Computational examples show that, with a given input, the proposed algorithms rapidly solve the journeying problem.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6293897]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>360</startPage>
			<endPage>369</endPage>
			<fileSize>270</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Hame, L.;Hakula, H.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Weather Adaptive Traffic Prediction Using Neurowavelet Models]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6414631]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Climate change is a prevalent issue facing the world today. Unexpected increase in rainfall intensity and events is one of the major signatures of climate change. Rainfall influences traffic conditions and, in turn, traffic volume in urban arterials. For improved traffic management under adverse weather conditions, it is important to develop a traffic prediction algorithm considering the effect of rainfall. This inclusion is not intuitive as the effect is not immediate, and the influence of rainfall on traffic volume is often unrecognizable in a direct correlation analysis between the two time-series data sets; it can only be observed at certain frequency levels. Accordingly, it is useful to employ a multiresolution prediction framework to develop a weather adaptive traffic forecasting algorithm. Discrete wavelet transform (DWT) is a well-known multiresolution data analysis methodology. However, DWT imparts time variance in the transformed signal and makes it unsuitable for further time-series analysis. Therefore, the stationary form of DWT known as stationary wavelet transform (SWT) has been used in this paper to develop a neurowavelet prediction algorithm to forecast hourly traffic flow considering the effect of rainfall. The proposed prediction algorithm has been evaluated at two urban arterial locations in Dublin, Ireland. This paper shows that the rainfall data successfully augments the traffic flow data as an exogenous variable in periods of inclement weather, resulting in accurate predictions of future traffic flow at the two chosen locations. The forecasts from the neurowavelet model outperform the forecasts from the standard artificial neural network (ANN) model.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6414631]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>370</startPage>
			<endPage>379</endPage>
			<fileSize>713</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Dunne, S.;Ghosh, B.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Performance Modeling of Safety Messages Broadcast in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6302199]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[In vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), because all vehicles in range are shown as destination nodes and less time is spent for the medium access process, broadcast communication is considered a highly appropriate technique for the dissemination of safety messages in such networks. However, the lack of request-to-send/clear-to-send handshaking and packet acknowledgment makes the communication more vulnerable to interferences, thus resulting in lower communication reliability. In this paper, we present an analytical model for the performance evaluation of safety message dissemination in vehicular ad hoc networks with two priority classes. In particular, considering the IEEE 802.11 broadcast protocol and using 2-D Markov modeling, we derive the joint distribution of the numbers of low-priority periodic messages, which are in transmission mode and in a backoff process in a highway. Then, the result is used to derive the average dissemination delay of high-priority event-driven messages in the presence of the low-priority traffic in the network. The results are helpful in determining a good tradeoff between network parameters such as vehicles' transmission range, safety traffic generation rate, and medium access control (MAC) parameters to satisfy the required delay bounds for the critical high-priority traffic.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6302199]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>380</startPage>
			<endPage>387</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Khabazian, M.;Aissa, S.;Mehmet-Ali, M.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Short-Run Route Diversion: An Empirical Investigation into Variable Message Sign Design and Policy Experiments]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6304929]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Variable message signs (VMSs) can convey several traffic and roadway information to motorists. Using empirical stated preference (SP) data from road users in Bangkok, Thailand, we demonstrate that short-run route diversion can be estimated and forecast based on different VMS message-content attributes via mixed logit and logit models in which the motorist's stated route diversion is the dependent variable. The findings reveal that different message contents lead to different levels of route-changing propensity. Route diversion in Bangkok is likely when a VMS displays a suggested route and qualitative information. The framing effect on route-choice decision explains the finding of qualitative delay information preference to its quantitative counterpart. To determine the policy implications, we further investigate the developed models by estimating changes in the probability of the stated route choice due to changes in the message content. Three VMS message policy experiments are conducted using the model: enforcing quantitative delay content, enforcing qualitative delay content, and enforcing suggested route content. The results show that qualitative delay information and the suggested route reduce the ambiguity of the message quality. The optimal VMS designs for short-run traffic management to encourage/discourage route diversion are discussed.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6304929]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>388</startPage>
			<endPage>397</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Jindahra, P.;Choocharukul, K.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Efficient Traffic State Estimation for Large-Scale Urban Road Networks]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6353219]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[This paper presents a systematic solution to efficiently estimate the traffic state of large-scale urban road networks. We first propose the new approach to construct the exact GIS-T digital map. The exact digital map can lay the solid foundation for the traffic state estimation with the data from Global Positioning System (GPS) probe vehicles. Then, we present the following two effective methods based on GPS probe vehicles for the traffic state estimation: 1) the curve-fitting-based method and 2) the vehicle-tracking-based method. Finally, we test the proposed solution with a large number of real data from GPS probe vehicles and the standard digital map of Shanghai, China. In the experiments, data from thousands of GPS-equipped taxies were taken as the probe vehicles. The estimation accuracy and operation speed of the two different methods were systematically measured and compared. In addition, the coverages of the GPS sampling points were also investigated for the large-scale urban road network in the spatial and temporal domains. For the accuracy experiment, the ground truth was obtained by repeating the videos that were recorded on 24 road sections in downtown Shanghai. The experimental results illustrate that the proposed methods are effective and efficient in monitoring the traffic state of large-scale urban road networks.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6353219]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>398</startPage>
			<endPage>407</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Kong, Q.-J.;Zhao, Q.;Wei, C.;Liu, Y.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Generalizing Laplacian of Gaussian Filters for Vanishing-Point Detection]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6313912]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[We propose a framework for road-vanishing-point detection based on a new generalized Laplacian of Gaussian (gLoG) filter. In the first part, the gLoG filter can be applied to estimate the texture orientation at each pixel of an image, and the road vanishing point can be detected based on the estimated texture orientations. However, such a texture-based road-vanishing-point detection scheme suffers from high computational complexity. In the second part, an efficient gLoG-based road-vanishing-point detection method is proposed by only using the dominant texture orientations estimated at a sparse set of salient microblob road regions, where the gLoG filter is used to detect these salient microblob areas and simultaneously estimate their dominant texture orientations. Experimental results on 1003 general road images show that the efficient gLoG-based method is significantly faster than a Gabor-filter-based method, whereas the detection accuracy is comparable. The nonefficient gLoG-based method is more accurate in detecting the vanishing point than the Gabor-based approach.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6313912]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>408</startPage>
			<endPage>418</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Kong, H.;Sarma, S.E.;Tang, F.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Study on the Method for Cleaning and Repairing the Probe Vehicle Data]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6308719]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Probe vehicle data are being increasingly applied in urban dynamic traffic data collection. However, the mobility and scale limit of probe vehicles may lead to incomplete or inaccurate data and thus influence the measurement of the state of traffic. At present, probe vehicle data are usually repaired by linear interpolation or a historical average method, but the repair accuracy is relatively low. To address the given problems, the multithreshold control repair method (MTCRM) was proposed to clean and repair the probe vehicle data. The MTCRM adopts threshold control and a rule based on the approximate normalization transform to clean abnormal traffic data and to fill in the missing data by a weighted average method and an exponential smoothing method. In this approach, we combine topological road network characteristics to fill in the missing data from data for neighboring road sections and repair noisy data by reconstructing the principal components. This paper mainly focuses on analyzing the component of the recurring pattern of probe vehicle data, which can provide guidelines for the subsequent traffic forecasts. The findings of data repair for different grades of road in Beijing, China, demonstrate that the mean repair error may meet the requirements of traffic-state measurement, demonstrating that MTCRM can effectively clean probe vehicle data.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6308719]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>419</startPage>
			<endPage>427</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Zhang, Z.;Yang, D.;Zhang, T.;He, Q.;Lian, X.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Study of Destination Selection Model Based on Link Flows]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6338336]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Generating travel behavior based on artificial population and an activity plan is a conventional method for traffic simulation. As a complicated and important constituent of travel behavior, destination selection is a decision-making process for space transfer and has been studied extensively in the disaggregate model. However, existing selection models only focus on the psychology or custom of individuals from a microscopic perspective and rarely take account of the actual traffic state. This causes a large deviation in simulation results and thus results in some obstacles for application. In this paper, a new destination selection model based on link flows is proposed. Further, a searching algorithm for an observed link set is given, and compressed sensing is used in the model solution. Experiments demonstrate that this model can predict the actual traffic state in rush hours quite well. Therefore, it contributes to the credible simulation and computational experiments.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6338336]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>428</startPage>
			<endPage>437</endPage>
			<fileSize>771</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Ye, P.;Wen, D.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Cooperative Scheduling Model for Timetable Optimization in Subway Systems]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6328281]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[In subway systems, the energy put into accelerating trains can be reconverted into electric energy by using the motors as generators during the braking phase. In general, except for a small part that is used for onboard purposes, most of the recovery energy is transmitted backward along the conversion chain and fed back into the overhead contact line. To improve the utilization of recovery energy, this paper proposes a cooperative scheduling approach to optimize the timetable so that the recovery energy that is generated by the braking train can directly be used by the accelerating train. The recovery that is generated by the braking train is less than the required energy for the accelerating train; therefore, only the synchronization between successive trains is considered. First, we propose the cooperative scheduling rules and define the overlapping time between the accelerating and braking trains for a peak-hours scenario and an off-peak-hours scenario, respectively. Second, we formulate an integer programming model to maximize the overlapping time with the headway time and dwell time control. Furthermore, we design a genetic algorithm with binary encoding to solve the optimal timetable. Last, we present six numerical examples based on the operation data from the Beijing Yizhuang subway line in China. The results illustrate that the proposed model can significantly improve the overlapping time by 22.06% at peak hours and 15.19% at off-peak hours.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6328281]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>438</startPage>
			<endPage>447</endPage>
			<fileSize>770</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Yang, X.;Li, X.;Gao, Z.;Wang, H.;Tang, T.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Distributed Classification of Traffic Anomalies Using Microscopic Traffic Variables]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6335477]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[This paper proposes a novel anomaly classification algorithm that can be deployed in a distributed manner and utilizes microscopic traffic variables shared by neighboring vehicles to detect and classify traffic anomalies under different traffic conditions. The algorithm, which incorporates multiresolution concepts, is based on the likelihood estimation of a neural network output and a bisection-based decision threshold. We show that, when applied to real-world traffic scenarios, the proposed algorithm can detect all the traffic anomalies of the reference test data set; this result represents a significant improvement over our previously proposed algorithm. We also show that the proposed algorithm can effectively detect and classify traffic anomalies even when the following two cases occur: 1) the microscopic traffic variables are available from only a fraction of the vehicle population, and 2) some microscopic traffic variables are lost due to degradation in vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) or vehicle-to-infrastructure communications (V2I).]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6335477]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>448</startPage>
			<endPage>458</endPage>
			<fileSize>1094</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Thajchayapong, S.;Garcia-Trevino, E.S.;Barria, J.A.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Road Geometry Classification by Adaptive Shape Models]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6342913]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Vision-based road detection is important for different applications in transportation, such as autonomous driving, vehicle collision warning, and pedestrian crossing detection. Common approaches to road detection are based on low-level road appearance (e.g., color or texture) and neglect of the scene geometry and context. Hence, using only low-level features makes these algorithms highly depend on structured roads, road homogeneity, and lighting conditions. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to classify road geometries for road detection through the analysis of scene composition and temporal coherence. Road geometry classification is proposed by building corresponding models from training images containing prototypical road geometries. We propose adaptive shape models where spatial pyramids are steered by the inherent spatial structure of road images. To reduce the influence of lighting variations, invariant features are used. Large-scale experiments show that the proposed road geometry classifier yields a high recognition rate of 73.57% <formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">$pm$</tex></formula> 13.1, clearly outperforming other state-of-the-art methods. Including road shape information improves road detection results over existing appearance-based methods. Finally, it is shown that invariant features and temporal information provide robustness against disturbing imaging conditions.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6342913]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>459</startPage>
			<endPage>468</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Alvarez, J.M.;Gevers, T.;Diego, F.;Lopez, A.M.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Estimating Real-Time Traffic Carbon Dioxide Emissions Based on Intelligent Transportation System Technologies]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6324441]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[In this paper, a bottom&#x2013;up vehicle emission model is proposed to estimate real-time <formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">$hbox{CO}_{2}$</tex></formula> emissions using intelligent transportation system (ITS) technologies. In the proposed model, traffic data that were collected by ITS are fully utilized to estimate detailed vehicle technology data (e.g., vehicle type) and driving pattern data (e.g., speed, acceleration, and road slope) in the road network. The road network is divided into a set of small road segments to consider the effects of heterogeneous speeds within a road link. A real-world case study in Beijing, China, is carried out to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed model. The spatiotemporal distributions of <formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">$ hbox{CO}_{2}$</tex></formula> emissions in Beijing are analyzed and discussed. The results of the case study indicate that ITS technologies can be a useful tool for real-time estimations of <formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX"> $hbox{CO}_{2}$</tex></formula> emissions with a high spatiotemporal resolution.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6324441]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>469</startPage>
			<endPage>479</endPage>
			<fileSize>953</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Chang, X.;Chen, B.Y.;Li, Q.;Cui, X.;Tang, L.;Liu, C.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Evacuation Planning Based on the Contraflow Technique With Consideration of Evacuation Priorities and Traffic Setup Time]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6226875]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Evacuation planning with the contraflow technique is a complex planning problem. The problem is further complicated when more realistic situations such as evacuation priorities and the setup time for the contraflow operation are considered. Such a complex problem has yet to be discussed in the present literature. In this paper, we present a multiple-objective optimization model for this problem and a two-layer algorithm to solve this model. Experiments on three transportation networks with different network scales are presented to show the excellent performance of the proposed model and algorithm.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6226875]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>480</startPage>
			<endPage>485</endPage>
			<fileSize>166</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Wang, J.W.;Wang, H.F.;Zhang, W.J.;Ip, W.H.;Furuta, K.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[A New Approach to Video-Based Traffic Surveillance Using Fuzzy Hybrid Information Inference Mechanism]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6264098]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[This study proposes a new approach to video-based traffic surveillance using a fuzzy hybrid information inference mechanism (FHIIM). The three major contributions of the proposed approach are background updating, vehicle detection with block-based segmentation, and vehicle tracking with error compensation. During background updating, small-range updating is adopted to overcome environmental changes under congested conditions. During vehicle detection, the proposed approach detects the vehicle candidates from the foreground image, and it resolves problems such as headlight effects. The tracking technique is employed to track vehicles in consecutive frames. First, the method detects edge features in congested scenes. Next, FHIIM is employed to determine the tracked vehicles. Finally, a method that compensates for error cases under congested conditions is applied to refine the tracking qualities. In our experiments, we tested scenarios both inside and outside the tunnel with three lanes. The results showed that the proposed system exhibits good performance under congested conditions.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6264098]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>485</startPage>
			<endPage>491</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Wu, B.-F.;Kao, C.-C.;Juang, J.-H.;Huang, Y.-S.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Enhancing Parking Simulations Using Peer-Designed Agents]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6275492]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[In this paper, we investigate the usefulness of peer-designed agents (PDAs) as a turn-key technology for enhancing parking simulations. The use of PDAs improves the system's ability to capture the dynamics of the interaction between individuals in the system, each theoretically exhibiting a different strategic behavior. Furthermore, since people in general are inherently rational and computation bounded, simulating this domain becomes even more challenging. The advantage of PDAs in this context lies in their ability to reliably simulate a large pool of human individuals with diverse strategies and goals. We demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed method by developing a large-scale simulation system for the parking space search domain, which plays an important role in urban transport systems. The system is based on 34 different parking search strategies. Most of these strategies are substantially different from synthetic strategies that are used in prior literature. A quantitative analysis of the PDAs indicates that they reliably capture their designers' real-life strategies. Finally, we demonstrate the usefulness of PDA-based parking space search simulation by utilizing it to evaluate four different information technologies that are of increasing use in recent years.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6275492]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>492</startPage>
			<endPage>498</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Chalamish, M.;Sarne, D.;Lin, R.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Special Issue on Next Generation Rail Operations]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6470724]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[ ]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6470724]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>499</startPage>
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			<title><![CDATA[Special Issue on Human Factors in Intelligent Vehicles]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6470725]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[ ]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6470725]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
			<startPage>500</startPage>
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			<title><![CDATA[IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society Information]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6470721]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[ ]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[March  2013]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6470721]]></guid>
			<volume>14</volume>
			<issue>1</issue>
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