Analysis of freeway traffic incident conditions by using second-order spatiotemporal traffic performance measures

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1925, 2005, Pages 20-28

  Ishak, Sherif ^a   Alecsandru, Ciprian ^a  

^a Louisiana State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

FREEWAY TRAFFIC; SPEED CONTOUR MAPS; TEXTURE CHARACTERIZATION;

HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

EID: 33646014434     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1925-03     Document Type: Conference Paper

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