A new measure of travel time reliability for in-vehicle navigation systems

Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems: Technology, Planning, and Operations

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 202-211

  Kaparias, Ioannis ^a   Bell, Michael G H ^a   Belzner, Heidrun ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BMW GROUP   (Germany)

Author keywords

In vehicle navigation systems; Intelligent transportation systems; Network reliability; Transportation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RELIABILITY; ROUTING ALGORITHMS; VEHICLE LOCATING SYSTEMS;

CHARACTERISTIC VALUES; DYNAMIC ROUTING ALGORITHMS; EXTREME VALUES; FIELD EXPERIMENTS; IN-VEHICLE NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT CARS; INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MANIPULATIONS; NETWORK RELIABILITY; SPEED DISTRIBUTIONS; TRAVEL TIME RELIABILITIES; TRAVEL TIMES; VEHICLE NAVIGATION SYSTEMS;

TRAFFIC CONTROL;

ALGORITHM; INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM; NAVIGATION; ROUTING; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 55849096940     PISSN: 15472450     EISSN: 15472442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15472450802448237     Document Type: Article

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