Prediction of transit vehicle arrival time for signal priority control: Algorithm and performance

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 688-696

  Tan, Chin Woo ^a   Park, Sungsu ^b   Liu, Hongchao ^c   Xu, Qing ^d   Lau, Peter ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Sejong University   (South Korea)

^c Texas Tech University   (United States)

^d PINC Solutions   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Error convergence; Historical and real time adaptive models; Intersection arrival time prediction; Signal priority; Vehicle location data

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INTERSECTIONS; METAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; VEHICLES;

A POSTERIORI; ADAPTIVE MODELS; ARRIVAL TIMES; ERROR CONVERGENCE; ERROR VARIANCES; FIELD TESTS; FILTER GAINS; HISTORICAL AND REAL-TIME ADAPTIVE MODELS; HISTORICAL MODELS; PREDICTION ALGORITHMS; PRIORITY CONTROLS; SIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS; TRANSIT VEHICLES; VEHICLE LOCATION DATA; VEHICLE LOCATIONS; WEIGHT DISTRIBUTIONS; WEIGHTED AVERAGES;

FORECASTING;

EID: 57149125304     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2008.2006799     Document Type: Article

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