This document summarizes a research paper on improving traffic detection algorithms using an extended floating car data (xFCD) system. The xFCD system collects data from vehicles including location, speed, direction and visual data from a forward-facing camera. It is tested under different lighting and traffic conditions. The paper investigates using xFCD data and information from road sensors to construct a hybrid model characterizing traffic states. A traffic detection algorithm is proposed to improve network performance metrics like throughput, delivery ratio and packet delay. Simulation results show the proposed approach improves these metrics compared to existing methods.