National Traffic Video’s access to many thousands of hours of video footage detailing real driver behaviors has opened significant research opportunities. Traffic collisions are common results of poor driver behaviors and many are captured by National Traffic Video, raising the prospect of needing to accurately measure the speed of vehicles captured by traffic cameras. In a technical paper published in early 2021, researchers at American Bio Engineers utilized traffic camera recordings from National Traffic Video to include in their analysis of validating the use of a novel photogrammetry tool created by iNPUT-ACE to measure vehicle speeds. When they utilized traffic camera recordings combined with laser scan data and the iNPUT-ACE program, the researchers were able to calculate the speed of vehicles passing traffic cameras within less than 2% of their actual speed. In their best test, they measured the speed of a car on a traffic camera recording to be 30.2 mph when the actual speed was 30.1 mph. Traffic camera recordings have the potential for future research into various driver behaviors in real world scenarios without the need to instrument individual vehicles.
