Transit buses as traffic probes: Use of geolocation data for empirical evaluation

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1870, 2004, Pages 35-45

  Bertini, Robert L ^a   Tantiyanugulchai, Sutti ^a  

^a Portland State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; PROBES; QUALITY OF SERVICE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT; TRAFFIC PROBES; TRANSIT BUSES; TRAVEL TIMES;

BUS TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 11144311973     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1870-05     Document Type: Conference Paper

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