Reconstructing the Traffic State by Fusion of Heterogeneous Data

Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 408-419

  Treiber, Martin ^a   Kesting, Arne ^a   Wilson, R Eddie ^b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SMOOTHING; CONGESTED TRAFFIC; DYNAMIC TRAFFIC; FINE STRUCTURES; FLOATING CAR DATA; FUSION OF HETEROGENEOUS DATA; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC; INTERPOLATION METHOD; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; STOP-AND-GO WAVES; TRAFFIC INFORMATION; TRAFFIC STATE;

DETECTORS; STREET TRAFFIC CONTROL;

HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL;

INTERPOLATION; SMOOTHING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT;

EID: 79958725367     PISSN: 10939687     EISSN: 14678667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8667.2010.00698.x     Document Type: Article

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