Travel time estimation in urban networks using limited probes data

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 305-318

  El Esawey, Mohamed ^a   Sayed, Tarek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Probe vehicles; Travel time correlation; Travel time estimation

Indexed keywords

ERROR MEASUREMENTS; LINK TRAVEL TIME; MICROSIMULATION MODELS; NETWORK SENSORS; PROBE VEHICLES; ROAD NETWORK; ROBUST NETWORK; SAMPLE SIZES; SIMULATION MODEL; TRAFFIC CONDITIONS; TRAFFIC VOLUMES; TRAVEL TIME; TRAVEL TIME DATA; TRAVEL TIME ESTIMATION; URBAN NETWORKS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; PROBES; RESEARCH; SENSORS;

TRAFFIC CONTROL;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CALIBRATION; CORRELATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HOMOGENEITY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RESEARCH WORK; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAVEL TIME; URBAN AREA; VOLUME;

EID: 79953851392     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: 12086029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/L11-001     Document Type: Article

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