调研题目 Thinking about the possibility of using radar to solve traffic jam problem

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Thinking about the possibility of using radar to solve traffic jam problem

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电子科技大学 格拉斯哥学院 2017级 韩若镔
新生研讨课作业
指导老师：徐世中

Preface
With the increase of people’s average income, the use of private cars has been very frequent.Although this is a good phenomenon, we have to pay attention to a series of social problems arising from it, one of which is the problem of road congestion.Now, almost every big city in our country has traffic jam at rush hour in the downtown area more or less.Perhaps radar can help.

What is radar
Radar, invented by bats, is derived from the abbreviation of radio detection and ranging, which involves detecting targets and detecting their spatial position by radio.Therefore, radar is also called “radio positioning”.Radar is an electronic device that USES electromagnetic waves to detect targets.Radar emits electromagnetic wave to irradiate the target and receive its echo, so as to obtain the distance, distance change rate (radial velocity), azimuth, height and other information from the target to the electromagnetic wave transmitting point.
Radar came into being during world war I, when Britain was at war with Germany, and Britain desperately needed a radar that could detect metal objects in the air to help search for German aircraft in anti-air war.During world war ii, radar technology for surface-to-air, air-to-ground (search) bombing, air-to-air (interception) fire control and identification of friend or foe functions had already appeared.
After world war ii, the development of radar on monopulse Angle tracking, pulse doppler signal processing, high resolution synthetic aperture and pulse compression, combined with the combination of the identification system, combining with computer automatic fire control system, terrain avoidance and terrain following, passive or active phase array, frequency agility, multiple target detection and tracking, etc.
Later, with the scientific progress in various fields such as microelectronics and the continuous development of radar technology, its connotation and research content are constantly expanding.The detection method of radar has been developed from the former only one kind of radar detector to the fusion and cooperation of infrared light, ultraviolet light, laser and other optical detection methods.The simultaneous, multifunctional capabilities of modern radars allow field commanders to scan targets in a variety of search/tracking modes and automatically correct interference errors, and most of the control functions are performed within the system.

Why can radar be used to improve road conditions
The main function of radar is to detect objects, so we can have the following assumption: can the main road sections in the central area of a city be all included in a simulation system by covering a large area of detection area, and the real-time detection of radar can reflect the situation of each road?Today’s technology is clearly capable of doing just that.First, we need to establish a link between radar detection and simulated images, and construct an appropriate way to present all the information obtained by radar in a specific way.For example, we can transform the vehicle conditions detected by radar into images, and combine these images to construct a planar live map of the viewing Angle.Then, the live map will be displayed in the form of app or WeChat app, so that all the car owners can see whether the road they want to take is blocked or not, and how the road condition is.Second, there could even be a mechanism for drivers to open up a map to see the road and then use a touchscreen to map the route they are likely to take.The program then accepts the route plans of thousands of drivers and gives feedback on how the roads will look in half an hour or even an hour.In this way, car owners can know the current road condition and the predicted road condition on their planned route in time, and then come up with their own optimal route.If possible, even the system can recommend the best route, so that the pressure of each road can be greatly Shared, and the cars can be distributed equally to each main road as far as possible.But the source of all this is the use of radar.There are several points worth noting in this idea.First, the radar must cover most of the main roads, at least all roads in the city center, so that it can really effectively relieve road pressure and improve road conditions, because these roads in the city center are the most prone to congestion.Two, radar doesn’t have to be accurate enough to detect where every car is on every road, but at least it has to be able to detect very clearly how many cars are on a road.Because a flat map can show the speed of each car without explicitly showing the size and speed of each car, it can be replaced by a dot matrix, but the main information – congestion – has to be more obvious.Moreover, because vehicles move faster, radar must also transmit information and draw live maps at a faster speed to reflect “real-time”.This is also a problem that needs to be solved.

Extension of this application
In fact, there are many other USES for radar.It can also come in handy on our campus.Every weekend, qingshui river campus always has a large number of tourists.We can also use radar + imaging to analyze the road conditions in the campus.Even, we can even use this method to detect where there are more people in the campus, so that we can judge which canteen is less people, now go to the mall can also find a seat, library several floors more empty, now go to the printing center to print the paper should wait for a long time…
All in all, the use of radar in this area seems to be very feasible.Rational use of radar technology, continuous optimization of people’s lives, let radar play their maximum value, is the right way to treat this great invention.