Real-time short-term traffic speed level forecasting and uncertainty quantification using layered Kalman filters

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2175, 2010, Pages 28-37

  Guo, Jianhua ^a   Williams, Billy M ^b  

^a Federal Highway Administration Virginia Division   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; COSTS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTERS; SPEED; SPEED CONTROL; STATISTICAL METHODS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ON-LINE ALGORITHMS; REAL- TIME; SPEED LEVELS; STOCHASTIC TIME SERIES MODELS; TRAFFIC CONDITIONS; TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; TRAFFIC SPEED; UNCERTAINTY; UNCERTAINTY MODELS; UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATIONS;

FORECASTING;

EID: 78651271213     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2175-04     Document Type: Article

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