Overtaking Rule Method for the Cleaning of Matched License-Plate Data

Abstract

In recent years automatic number plate recognition systems have been increasingly used to monitor urban link travel time. However, the set of travel times produced will contain erroneous records for a variety of reasons including the misreading of the licence plates by the camera, vehicles stopping en-route, and vehicles taking nondirect routes between the two camera sites. This paper proposes a novel technique called the