Toward understanding and reducing errors in real-time estimation of travel times

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2049, 2008, Pages 21-28

  Kothuri, Sirisha M ^a   Tufte, Kristin A ^a   Fayed, Enas ^a   Bertini, Robert L ^a  

^a Portland State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION; ESTIMATION ERRORS; INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS; LOOP DETECTOR; MID-POINT ALGORITHMS; PRIVATE CONTRACTORS; REAL TIME TRAVEL; REAL- TIME; REAL-TIME ESTIMATION; TRAVEL-TIME;

TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 56749156535     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2049-03     Document Type: Article

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