Uncertainty in traffic forecasts: Literature review and new results for The Netherlands

Transportation

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 375-395

  de Jong, Gerard ^a,b   Daly, Andrew ^a,b   Pieters, Marits ^a   Miller, Stephen ^a   Plasmeijer, Ronald ^a   Hofman, Frank ^c  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c Ministry of Transport Public Works and Water Management Netherlands   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Confidence interval; Simulation; Traffic forecasts; Travel demand; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRAFFIC SURVEYS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; TRAFFIC FORECASTS; TRANSPORT MODEL; TRAVEL DEMAND;

MOTOR TRANSPORTATION;

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FORECASTING METHOD; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAVEL DEMAND; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34347379386     PISSN: 00494488     EISSN: 15729435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11116-006-9110-8     Document Type: Review

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