Estimation of traffic stream space mean speed from time aggregations of double loop detector data

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 115-129

  Soriguera, F ^a   Robuste F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Space mean speed; Speed variance; Time mean speed; Traffic flow theory; Traffic fundamental variables

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; DATA STREAMS; SPEED CONTROL; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

AVERAGE RELATIVE ERROR; COMPLEMENTARY RELATIONSHIP; PROBABILISTIC METHODS; SPACE MEAN SPEED; SPACE MEAN SPEED (SMS); SPEED VARIANCE; TRAFFIC FLOW THEORY; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT CENTERS;

SPEED;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; METHODOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; THEORETICAL STUDY; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 77957292539     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2010.04.004     Document Type: Article

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