Distributed surveillance on freeways emphasizing incident detection and verification

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 750-767

  Coifman, Benjamin A ^a   Mallika, Ramachandran ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Freeways; Highway traffic; Incident detection; Traffic congestion; Traffic surveillance; Vehicle detectors

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST REDUCTION; DECISION MAKING; DETECTORS; HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

AVERAGE ANNUAL DAILY TRAVEL (AADT); TRAFFIC SURVEILLANCE;

HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

DECISION MAKING; DETECTION METHOD; ROAD TRANSPORT; TELECOMMUNICATION; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT;

EID: 34247509611     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2006.12.001     Document Type: Article

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