On the assessment of vehicle trajectory data accuracy and application to the Next Generation SIMulation (NGSIM) program data

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1243-1262

  Punzo, Vincenzo ^a   Borzacchiello, Maria Teresa ^b   Ciuffo, Biagio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Analysis of error; Data accuracy; Delta method; NGSIM; Spectral analysis; Traffic flow theory; Trajectory consistency; Vehicle trajectory data

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; ERROR STATISTICS; ERRORS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VEHICLES;

DATA ACCURACY; DELTA METHOD; NGSIM; TRAFFIC FLOW THEORY; VEHICLE TRAJECTORIES;

TRAJECTORIES;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

EID: 80052720792     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2010.12.007     Document Type: Article

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