Bayesian mixture model for estimating freeway travel time distributions from small probe samples from multiple days

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2136, 2009, Pages 37-44

  Jintanakul, Klayut ^a   Chu, Lianyu ^b   Jayakrishnan, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; MIXTURES; TRAFFIC CONTROL; TRAVEL TIME;

BAYESIAN MIXTURE MODELING; DATA SAMPLE; DISTRIBUTIONAL SHAPE; HIERARCHICAL BAYESIAN; MULTI-MODAL; NORMAL COMPONENT; SMALL DATA; TRAVEL TIME DATA; TRAVEL TIME DISTRIBUTIONS; TRAVEL-TIME;

PROBES;

EID: 76749165350     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2136-05     Document Type: Article

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