A real-time freeway network traffic surveillance tool

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 18-32

  Wang, Yibing ^a   Papageorgiou, Markos ^a   Messmer, Albert ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Extended Kalman filter; Freeway networks; On line model parameter estimation; Queue tracking; Stochastic macroscopic freeway network traffic flow model; Traffic state estimation and prediction; Traffic surveillance; Travel time estimation and prediction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KALMAN FILTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EXTENDED KALMAN FILTER; FREEWAY NETWORKS; ON-LINE MODEL PARAMETER ESTIMATION; QUEUE TRACKING; STOCHASTIC MICROSCOPIC FREEWAY NETWORK TRAFFIC FLOW MODEL; TRAFFIC SURVEILLANCE; TRAVEL TIME ESTIMATION AND PREDICTION;

TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

EID: 32944463078     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2005.859636     Document Type: Article

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