Methodology to Identify Optimal Placement of Point Detectors for Travel Time Estimation

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 155-173

  Edara, Praveen ^a   Smith, Brian ^b   Guo, Jianhua ^b   Babiceanu, Simona ^b   McGhee, Catherine ^c  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United States)

Author keywords

Heuristic search; Optimization; Point detectors; Travel time

Indexed keywords

DATA COLLECTION; DECISION SUPPORTS; FINITE SET; FREE TRAVEL; HEURISTIC SEARCH; HEURISTIC SEARCH TECHNIQUE; OPTIMAL LOCATIONS; OPTIMAL PLACEMENTS; POINT DETECTION; POINT DETECTORS; POSITIONING SYSTEM; SEARCH TOOLS; TRAVEL TIME; TRAVEL TIME ESTIMATION; VIRGINIA;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; MODULAR ROBOTS; OPTIMIZATION; SEARCH ENGINES;

DETECTORS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DETECTION METHOD; ESTIMATION METHOD; GENETIC ALGORITHM; HEURISTICS; OPTIMIZATION; PLANNING METHOD; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; TRAVEL TIME;

UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

EID: 79952345924     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)TE.1943-5436.0000205     Document Type: Article

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