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The focus of this chapter is on surveying UAV-based systems for traffic monitoring and management. Although there has been voluminous research on the subject, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are proven to be a viable and less timeconsuming alternative to real-time traffic monitoring and management, providing the solution to the problem.
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Kanistras, K., Martins, G., Rutherford, M.J., Valavanis, K.P. (2015). Survey of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for Traffic Monitoring. In: Valavanis, K., Vachtsevanos, G. (eds) Handbook of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9707-1_122
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