Simulation assessment of incident detection by cellular phone call-in programs

Transportation

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 399-416

  Mussa, Renatus N ^a   Upchurch, Jonathan E ^b  

^a FAMU FSU COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular telephones; Incident detection; Simulation; Traffic modeling; Wireless communications

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

AUTOMATIC INCIDENT DETECTION (AID) SYSTEMS; CELLULAR PHONE CALL-IN PROGRAMS;

HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

PLANNING METHOD; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033380390     PISSN: 00494488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005283307060     Document Type: Article

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