With the rise of AI transportation services in recent years, the external world has shown growing demand and quality requirements for real-time traffic information. In addition, with AI and image automatic recognition technology gradually reaching maturity, the pain spot (such as inaccuracy between notification and actual venue of occurrence, limited road condition and impact information disclosure following event occurrences, lack of comprehensive case reporting mechanisms, etc.) of real-time event information collection in the past is expected to be resolved. The Institute of Transportation, MOTC has since 2018 engaged in collaboration with Kaohsiung City Government and Tainan City Government, selecting two major road junctions and peripheral road sections as experimental sites and attempting to use image recognition coupled with AI technology to implement traffic parameters and abnormal event detections. The initial results showed 96% average accuracy in traffic, 97% average accuracy in vehicle speed, and 90% accuracy in abnormal event detection. In the future, improvements will continue to be made targeting the identification of special vehicles, the scope of event impact, post-event detections and other issues.
According to the Institute of Transportation, MOTC, real-time traffic information has been an important part of smart traffic development, while the accuracy and instantaneousness of traffic event information are urgently needed in smart traffic application and are the major key basic services of future autopilot project promotions. The Institute of Transportation, MOTC will continue to improve AI image recognition technology accuracy and plan promotions and applications in metropolitan areas in collaboration with local governments to prefect national real-time road condition information and enable the local governments to quickly launch handling mechanisms through the notification of real-time event information, thereby improving driving convenience and safety.