Post-construction evaluation of traffic forecast accuracy

Transport Policy

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 428-443

  Parthasarathi, Pavithra ^a   Levinson, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Forecast accuracy; Model evaluation; Project evaluation; Transportation demand forecasting

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; FORECASTING METHOD; MODELING; ROAD TRANSPORT; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

MINNESOTA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956171270     PISSN: 0967070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2010.04.010     Document Type: Article

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