Statistical features of traffic flow on urban freeways

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 387, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 944-954

  Guan, Wei ^a   He, Shuyan ^a  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Statistical analysis; Traffic flow; Urban freeway; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; STATISTICAL METHODS; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

HIGHWAY TRAFFIC; TRAFFIC FLOW; URBAN FREEWAY;

HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

EID: 36649013509     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2007.09.036     Document Type: Article

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