Vitronic - Local Traffic Safety Analyzer

Local Traffic Safety Analyzer (LTSA) Michael Leyendecker, VITRONIC Office Berlin Prof. Michael Ortgiese, German Aerospace Center (DLR)

… who we are

LTSA Project Partners VITRONIC • • • • •

Machine vision company based in Wiesbaden, Germany Leading supplier of road traffic and enforcement systems > 10,000 road traffic systems installed globally > 1,100 staff, order entry: 235 Mio, 151 Mio. Euro turnover (2020) Focus LTSA: Roadside systems, object detection and tracking, LTSA application

German Aerospace Center (DLR) • • • • •

Leading German research organisation 55 specialized Institutes with a total of 10,000 staff Institute of Transportation Systems Berlin/Braunschweig with 190 scientists Transportation sectors: automotive, railways, airports, road traffic management Focus LTSA: Optimization of flow of traffic / Traffic light control via VITAL* * Vehicle-Actuated Intelligent Traffic Signal Control 3

VITRONIC ROADSIDE SYSTEMS ➢ SPEED ENFORCEMENT ➢ RED LIGHT ENFORCEMENT ➢ AVERAGE SPEED ENFORCEMENT

FREE-FLOW TOLLING ENFORCEMENT SYSTEMS FROM VITRONIC

➢ STATIONARY / MOBILE ELECTRONIC TOLL COLLECTION ➢ NATIONWIDE TOLLING ➢ URBAN TOLLING ➢ TOLL AUDITING ➢ TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT, TRAFFIC DATA

LTSA … empowering roadside technology to support New Mobility!

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Objectives • Research and development for a new type of product solution named „LTSA“

• Improving safety for vulnerable road users (VRU), particularly pedestrians, bicycles • First application: optimization of traffic light control to reduce waiting times and emissions (DLR VITAL)

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Project Data „I am (more) important“

 Start: December 2020  End: December 2022  Funding: Co-financed by 2 Federal

German States plus VITRONIC and DLR

„I am (more) important“

„We are (more) important“

 Status: on-going

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Let‘s investigate what LTSA Team did?

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Field test 1

Field test 2

- Campus FH Potsdam - Focus on VRU - Testing various detection and tracking sensors - No cars

- Road intersection in Potsdam - Cont. testing of various sensor and mounting positions - Including normal road traffic, buses, tram - V2X communication

LT S A Local Traffic Safety Analyzer Local Traffic Safety Analyzer (LTSA)

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Field test 1 • Installation and commissioning in September 2021 • Testing of different sensors

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Field test 1: Example Sensor • VRU Detection by thermo camera • Translation of thermo data in objects • Identifiying trajectories

01.03.2022

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Field test 1: Example TROL • Converting of video data in Tracked Object List (TROL)

• VRU detection and tracking via VITRONIC video sensor

01.03.2022

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Field test 2: Set-up • Installation and commissioning end of 2021 and January 2022 • Intersection at Kiepenheuerallee/GeorgHermann-Allee at Potsdam • Focus on potentially dangerous situation and anticipation of collisions between traffic objects • Notification of connected users through warning signals • Using sensor data, two scenarios were defined ➢ “Man on the road” ➢ “Emergency vehicle”

19.04.2022

FL-II

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B C

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Field test 2: Mounting Positions A & B

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Field test 2: Extra LIDAR Tests / Mouting Position A Status

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… first results from LTSA field test #1 and #2 18

Field test 1

Field test 2

- Various sensors delivery good results for VRU detection and tracking

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Sensor results confirm initial conclusions from Field test 1

- Cost levels

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For the LTSA Application: Scenario Definition such as collision warning is important

- Data privacy and cost considerations favour video sensors

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To do’s: integration of data into traffic light control and V2X warnings

- Covid challenges

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Further Tests / Covid challenges

- Anonymsiation of data is key (TROL)

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… what next?

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Further R&D for the LTSA Product Solution Local Traffic Safety Analyzer Sensor Platform

Interfaces

Sensor 1 Sensor 2 Sensor 3 Sensor 4

DLR/VITAL

LTSA-Server including software application

V2X

Combinatorics of Hardware and Software Sensors / Edge computing

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On the way to Market

Business Modell ?

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… Questions?

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Thank You for the Attention!!!

Michael Leyendecker Fon: +49 174 2081 174 E-mail: Michael.Leyendecker@Vitronic.com

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