In Shanghai, China, two transportation demand management (TDM) measures, auctions of Shanghai vehicle licence plates and a narrow-time-based travel restriction policy, have been implemented to control the vehicle ownership and the use of vehicles registered outside Shanghai (VROS). To investigate the impact of these two TDM measures on VROS, vehicle use behaviour is analysed with automatic licence plate recognition (ALPR) data. A two-step k-means clustering algorithm is proposed to classify VROS' use behaviour from ALPR raw data. Moreover, the spatiotemporal patterns of each type of VROS and the structure of total transportation demand are analysed. The results show that VROS in Shanghai expressway network can be classified into five types. Type 1 vehicles are used for commuting (COM), and type 2 vehicles are used with high intensity during both on workdays and non-workdays (HHI). COM and HHI are mainly used by local Shanghai residents who cannot obtain a local licence plate under the auction policy. These two types of VROS only account for 3.6% of total vehicles but generate 14.2% of total traffic demand. If the users of COM and HHI transferred to public transit, the traffic congestion of expressway network would be greatly alleviated.
Using ALPR data to understand the vehicle use behaviour under TDM measures
IET Intelligent Transport Systems ; 12 , 10 ; 1264-1270
2018-09-03
7 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
pattern clustering , vehicle use behaviour , type 2 vehicles , Shanghai vehicle licence plates , Shanghai expressway network , two-step k-means clustering algorithm , transportation demand management measures , VROS classification , TDM measures , China , narrow-time-based travel restriction policy , ALPR data , total traffic demand , automatic licence plate recognition data , vehicles registered outside Shanghai usage , traffic engineering computing , vehicle ownership control , public transit , type 1 vehicles , traffic congestion , pattern classification
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