A note on the fluctuation of flows under the entropy principle

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 417-423

  Leung, Yee ^a   Yan, Jianping ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Entropy maximization; Fluctuation of flows; Probability of occurrence; Scale of a system; Spatial interaction; Variance of flows

Indexed keywords

INTERSECTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; SYSTEM THEORY;

ENTROPY MAXIMIZATION; FLOW VARIANCE; SPATIAL INTERACTION;

MOTOR TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 0031257993     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-2615(97)00007-6     Document Type: Article

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