Comparación entre mediciones de velocidad obtenidas con los equipos GPS y Pistola Láser

Abstract

The modelling of relationships between operating speed and highway geometry needs accurate and exact speed records. There exist passive and active devices for speed measuring. Among those devices, the GPS and laser guns highlight considering its low cost and its in-field easy-to- use speed measurement. Accuracy studies of those devices need a good control of the probe vehicle reference speed, which is achieved by using the tachometer. On the other side, combined use of the GPS and the laser gun need to know the relationship between speed records of both devices. This paper presents an in-field study of the relationships between speed records obtained with tachometer, GPS and laser gun. The experiment was carried out on a road test section. The speed measurements performed with those devices ranged between 20 and 120 km/h. Speed data were processed and debugged to erase outliers.The GPS speed data were processed using Kalman filter to assemble speed data and position data. After statistical analysis, correlations between tachometer and GPS and between laser gun and GPS were obtained. It is concluded that the differences of speed records between tachometer and GPS are statistically significant, ranging between 3 and 10 km/h. Whereas the speed records obtained with laser gun and GPS were statistically equal and it was identified a systematic difference between both devices of 0.5 km/h.