Mobile phones as traffic probes: Practices, prospects and issues

Transport Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 275-291

  Rose, Geoff ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33645009344     PISSN: 01441647     EISSN: 14645327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01441640500361108     Document Type: Review

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