Temporal evolution of short-term urban traffic flow: A nonlinear dynamics approach

Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 536-548

  Vlahogianni, Eleni I ^a   Karlaftis, Matthew G ^a   Golias, John C ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DYNAMICS; FLOW OF SOLIDS; NEURAL NETWORKS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TRAFFIC SURVEYS;

DETERMINISTIC STRUCTURE; MULTI LAYERING; NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS; NON-LINEAR EVOLUTIONS; STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; STATISTICAL TREATMENT; TEMPORAL EVOLUTIONS; TEMPORAL PATTERN IDENTIFICATION; TEMPORAL PATTERNING; TRAFFIC CONDITIONS; TRAFFIC FLOWING; TRAFFIC FORECASTING; TRAFFIC PATTERNS; TRAFFIC VOLUMES; URBAN TRAFFIC;

TRAFFIC CONTROL;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FORECASTING METHOD; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; URBAN TRANSPORT;

EID: 50249115597     PISSN: 10939687     EISSN: 14678667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8667.2008.00554.x     Document Type: Article

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