Traffic speed enforcement is an important issue to guarantee public road security and to reduce the number of traffic accidents. Traffic speed meters are important legal measuring instruments specially used for traffic speed surveillance and enforcement in China and around the world. A field test method based on test vehicle is introduced in this paper. Firstly, the principle of the field test method based on test vehicle and the requirements for the standard speed-measuring instrument are introduced. Secondly, three main speed-measuring sensors, including non-contact optical speed sensor, GPS speed sensor and dual-antenna Doppler radar sensor, used in the standard speed-measuring instrument are given. Finally, two comparison experiments were carried out in the field to evaluate the field speed-measuring performances of the standard speed-measuring instruments with different speed sensors.
KEYWORDS: Sensors, Radar, 3D imaging standards, Error analysis, Metrology, Roads, Photography, 3D acquisition, Signal processing, Radar signal processing
Traffic speed enforcement is an important issue to guarantee public road security and to reduce the number of traffic accidents. Traffic speed meters are important legal measuring instruments specially used for traffic speed surveillance and enforcement in China and around the world. An online test method based on actual traffic with no need to close the road is introduced in this paper. Firstly, the principle of the online test method based on actual traffic and the requirements for the standard speed-measuring instrument are introduced. Secondly, three main standard speedmeasuring instruments respectively using piezoelectric film sensors, 3D tracking radar and light barrier are given. Finally, two comparison experiments were carried out in the field to evaluate the field speed-measuring performances of the standard speed-measuring instruments used for online tests for verification of traffic speed meters in actual traffic.
The high rotational speed standard device based on brushless DC coreless micro motor and FPGA technology for highaccuracy rotational speed control was investigated and established, with resolution of 1 r/min in the measurement range of 40000 r/min to 100000 r/min. The expanded calibration uncertainty of this standard device is 1×10-5, k=3 The structure of the device and key technology involved were described.The dual closed-loop control solution was explained. The calibration results were provided.This high rotational speed standard device is used as an important working standard for the feasible traceability of high-precision optical tachometers and rotational speed measuring instruments at measurement range above 40000 r/min.
A field experimental standard for traffic speed measurement was set up at No.G92 Expressway of China from Hangzhou to Shanghai for field tests of vehicle speed-measuring devices in actual traffic, and it met the requirements of the recommendation in OIML R 91 about the metrological field tests of pattern approval. This paper firstly introduces the speed measurement principle of the standard equipment and evaluates the uncertainty of speed measurement. Secondly, a field test based on this standard equipment is designed and performed on a radar speed-measuring device to evaluate its actual speed measurement performance in actual traffic. Finally, the uncertainty of measurement of field test error in actual traffic is evaluated.
GPS based high accuracy speed meter for vehicles is a special type of GPS speed meter which uses Doppler Demodulation of GPS signals to calculate the speed of a moving target. It is increasingly used as reference equipment in the field of traffic speed measurement, but acknowledged standard calibration methods are still lacking. To solve this problem, this paper presents the set-ups of simulated calibration, field test signal replay calibration, and in-field test comparison with an optical sensor based non-contact speed meter. All the experiments were carried out on particular speed values in the range of (40-180) km/h with the same GPS speed meter. The speed measurement errors of simulated calibration fall in the range of ±0.1 km/h or ±0.1%, with uncertainties smaller than 0.02% (k=2). The errors of replay calibration fall in the range of ±0.1% with uncertainties smaller than 0.10% (k=2). The calibration results justify the effectiveness of the two methods. The relative deviations of the GPS speed meter from the optical sensor based noncontact speed meter fall in the range of ±0.3%, which validates the use of GPS speed meter as reference instruments. The results of this research can provide technical basis for the establishment of internationally standard calibration methods of GPS speed meters, and thus ensures the legal status of GPS speed meters as reference equipment in the field of traffic speed metrology.
Traffic speed enforcement is an important issue in order to guarantee public road security and to reduce the number of traffic accidents. Currently, this task has been partially carried out by vehicle speed-measuring devices, mainly including Doppler radar, lidar and inductive loop in China. To further evaluate the speed measurement performance of these devices widely used for evidentiary purposes in traffic speed enforcement cases, a traffic speed measurement standard equipment has newly been set up at No.S16 Expressway from Hangzhou to Shanghai in China. The standard equipment can be used for pattern approval field tests of vehicle speed-measuring devices in actual traffic, which can meet the requirements of the recommendation in OIML R 91 about the metrological field tests, with the advantage of the overall experiments of possible errors due to the complexity of factors affecting the result of measurement, such as shape of antenna pattern, reflection characteristics of target vehicle, change of lane during target vehicle passage through measurement region, braking or accelerating, presence of more than one vehicle, etc. This paper introduces the speed measurement principle of three kinds of vehicle speed-measuring devices, and studies the components of the standard equipment. A field testing experiment based on the standard equipment in actual traffic was designed and performed with 11 types of vehicle speed-measuring products as samples, including radar, lidar and inductive loop based devices, to evaluate their actual performances in actual traffic.
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