A Survey on Counting and Classification of Highway Vehicles

Vehicle tracking system is used for the observing vehicles on the move and supplying a timely ordered sequence of respective location data to model. Tracking vehicles on highways is a complex task since the count of vehicles increase day by day. The process of counting traffic along a particular road, either done electronically or by people counting by the side of the road is called vehicle counting sometimes referred as traffic counting. Local councils use vehicle count to identify which routes are used most, and to either improve that road or provide an alternative if there is an excessive amount of traffic. Some of the geography fieldwork involves a traffic count. They are useful for comparing two or more roads, and can also be used alongside other methods to find out where the Central Business District (CBD) of a settlement is located. Traffic counts that include speeds are used in speed limit enforcement efforts, highlighting peak speeding periods to optimize speed camera use and educational efforts. Many algorithms and methods have been proposed in this paper to detect, track, classify and count vehicles on