UTRaLab – Urban Traffic Research Laboratory

Abstract

The Urban Tra c Research Laboratory (UTRaLab) is a research and test track for tra c detection methods and sensors. It is located at the Ernst-Ruska-Ufer, in the southeast of the city of Berlin (Germany). The UTRaLab covers 1 km of a highly-frequented urban road and is connected to a motorway. It is equipped with two gantries with distance of 850 m in between and has several outstations for data collection. The gantries contain many di erent tra c sensors like inductive loops, cameras, lasers or wireless sensors for tra c data acquisition. Additionally a weather station records environmental data. The UTRaLab's main purposes are the data collection of tra c data on the one hand and testing newly developed sensors on the other hand.