Exploiting wireless communication in vehicle density estimation

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2742-2751

  Panichpapiboon, Sooksan ^a   Pattara Atikom, Wasan ^b  

^a KING MONGKUT'S INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY LADKRABANG   (Thailand)

^b NATIONAL ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Traffic information systems; vehicle density estimation; vehicle to vehicle communication; vehicular networks

Indexed keywords

DETECTION DEVICE; IN-VEHICLE; INDUCTIVE LOOP DETECTORS; NUMBER OF VEHICLES; PROBE VEHICLES; ROAD TRAFFIC; SELF ORGANIZING; TRAFFIC INFORMATION; TRAFFIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; TRAFFIC SURVEILLANCE; VEHICLE DENSITY; VEHICLE DENSITY ESTIMATION; VEHICLE-TO-VEHICLE COMMUNICATION; VEHICULAR NETWORKS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

ESTIMATION; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SECURITY SYSTEMS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

VEHICLES;

EID: 79960354287     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2011.2158566     Document Type: Article

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