A simple and effective method for predicting travel times on freeways

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 200-207

  Rice, John ^a   Van Zwet, Erik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Intelligent transportation systems (ITS); Linear regression; Prediction; Travel time; Varying coefficients

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; INTERNET; LINEAR SYSTEMS; PLANNING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS;

INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM (ITS); LINEAR REGRESSION; PREDICTION; TRAVEL TIME; VARYING COEFFICIENTS;

INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

EID: 4544274995     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2004.833765     Document Type: Article

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