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Automatic Passenger Counting in the HOV Lane

Status:  Complete
Report Date:  01/20/2000

Summary:

This research applied wave band and computer vision methods to automatically count vehicle occupants in the High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lane at a high level of accuracy.This research showed that use of near-infrared bandwidth offers potential as a method for developing an automatic vehicle counting system. The next step involves additional research into a working device.

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