Trip travel-time reliability: Issues and proposed solutions

Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems: Technology, Planning, and Operations

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 232-250

  Rakha, Hesham ^a,b   El Shawarby, Ihab ^b,c   Arafeh, Mazen ^d  

^a State University   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA TECH TRANSPORTATION INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c The British University in Egypt   (Egypt)

^d UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Advanced Traveler Information; Intelligent Transportation Systems; Time Travel Reliability; Transportation Modeling

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED TRAVELER INFORMATION; ADVANCED TRAVELER INFORMATION SYSTEMS; AUTOMATIC VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; CONDITIONAL EXPECTATION; GOODNESS-OF-FIT TEST; INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS; LOG-NORMAL; PRACTICE PROCEDURE; SAN ANTONIO; SIMULATED DATA; STEADY-STATE CONDITION; TIME DISTRIBUTION; TIME TRAVEL; TRANSPORTATION MODELING; TRAVEL TIME; TRAVEL-TIME RELIABILITIES;

ESTIMATION; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

ADVANCED TRAVELER INFORMATION SYSTEM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; ROAD; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; TRAVEL TIME; VEHICLE COMPONENT;

SAN ANTONIO; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78249238171     PISSN: 15472450     EISSN: 15472442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15472450.2010.517477     Document Type: Article

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