With the planned extension of the Montreal area’s highway traffic management system, it is expected that, as in other places, Montreal will see an increase in the number of cameras monitoring the roads via closed circuit television, and thus an increase in the number of monitors to be watched by the CGC (traffic management center). There would therefore be a definite interest in technology that offers a real possibility of considerably increasing the technical capacities of CGC staff by releasing them completely or partially from the task of watching TV monitors in order to focus on managing traffic and managing incidents.

The purpose of the project is to evaluate the performance of an Automatic Incident Detection system that processes video images from existing fixed and roving eye cameras along highways.

First, the effectiveness and reliability of the proposed AID system will be evaluated to see whether it can detect all the incidents that are currently detected by operators.