Multiple imputation scheme for overcoming the missing values and variability issues in ITS data

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 131, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 931-938

  Ni, Daiheng ^a   Leonard II, John D ^a   Guin, Angshuman ^b   Feng, Chunxia ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b URS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Data processing; Intelligent transportation systems; Traffic capacity

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RANDOM PROCESSES;

HIGHWAY CAPACITY MANUAL (HCM); IMPUTATION TECHNIQUES; INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (ITS); TRAFFIC CAPACITY;

INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

DATA PROCESSING; INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT;

EID: 28944453700     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-947X(2005)131:12(931)     Document Type: Article

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