Non-recurrent traffic incidents (accidents, stalled vehicles and spilled loads) often bring about traffic congestion and even secondary accidents. Detecting and positioning them quickly and accurately has important significance for early warning, timely incident-disposal and speedy congestion-evacuation. This study proposes a video-based detecting and positioning method by analysing distribution characteristics of traffic states in a road segment. Each lane in the monitored segment is divided into a cluster of cells. Traffic parameters in each cell, including flow rate, average travel speed and average space occupancy, are obtained by detecting and tracking traffic objects (vehicles and spilled loads). On the basis of the parameters, traffic states in the cells are judged via a fuzzy-identification method. For each congested cell, a feature vector is constructed by taking its state together with states of its upstream and downstream neighbouring cells in the same lane. Then, a support vector machine classifier is trained to detect incident point. If a cell is judged to be corresponding to an incident point at least for two successive time periods, an incident is detected and its position is calculated based on the identity number of the cell. Experiments prove the efficiency and practicability of the proposed method.


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