Bellevue, Washington, United States
Accelerating Vision Zero with Advanced Video Analytics: Video-based Network-wide Conflict and Speed Analysis
Summary Information
Motivated by the city’s goal of zero traffic incidents in the near future (Vision Zero), the “Video-based Network-wide Conflict and Speed Analysis to Support Vision Zero in Bellevue (WA) United States” project began in August 2019. The city installed a network of 360-degree, high-definition traffic cameras at 40 intersections to collect advanced visual and then employed AI machine-vision algorithms to identify notable events.
In addition to the case study, in July 2020, the city published three reports using the data collected, including one on conflict analysis, one on speeding analysis, and one on the correlation between conflicts, speeding, and crashes.
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Methodology The city chose to study 40 intersections representing a diverse spread of characteristics including location, land use, density and road geometry. The cameras collected data 16 hours per day for a week in September 2019. Captured was around 5,000 hours of footage, 8.25 million road user observations and 20,000 critical conflict interactions. Using artificial intelligence algorithms to process traffic camera footage, the project team was able to ascertain traffic volume, road user speed, and near-crash event data. Video-based monitoring has several advantages over traditional methods. For example, video-based monitoring can detect near-crashes, classify road user types (cars, bikes, pedestrians) and their movement paths, as well as detect infractions such as speeding and lane violations. Data collection in the form of video also were easy for human researchers to review and understand, unlike other methods such as LIDAR or Bluetooth sensor data which often provide numerical data. Findings Using video-based monitoring and artificial intelligence algorithms for incident detection, the team found many pertinent results. These include:
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