Real-time queue length estimation for congested signalized intersections

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 412-427

  Liu, Henry X ^a   Wu, Xinkai ^a   Ma, Wenteng ^a   Hu, Heng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

High resolution event based data; Queue length estimation; Shockwave; Traffic signal

Indexed keywords

QUEUEING THEORY; SHOCK WAVES; STREET TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EVALUATION RESULTS; GROUND TRUTH DATA; HIGH-RESOLUTION EVENT-BASED DATUM; INPUT-OUTPUT APPROACH; INTERSECTION QUEUE LENGTH; QUEUE DISCHARGE FLOWS; QUEUE LENGTH ESTIMATIONS; SIGNALIZED INTERSECTION;

TRAFFIC SIGNALS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; MODEL; REAL TIME; SIGNALING; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

EID: 67349266687     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2009.02.003     Document Type: Article

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