Incorporating uncertainty into short-term travel time predictions

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1006-1018

  Li, Ruimin ^a   Rose, Geoffrey ^b  

^a The Australian Bureau of Statistics   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Prediction; Short term; Travel time; Variability

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; FORECASTING; TIME VARYING CONTROL SYSTEMS;

NEURAL NETWORK MODEL; SHORT TERM; SHORT TERM PREDICTION; SPEED DIFFERENCE; TRAVEL TIME INFORMATION; TRAVEL TIME PREDICTION; TRAVEL TIME VARIABILITIES; VARIABILITY;

TRAVEL TIME;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; MOTORWAY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; TRANSPORTATION; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 79960456666     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2011.05.014     Document Type: Article

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