Prediction of lane clearance time of freeway incidents using the M5P tree algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1549-1557

  Zhan, Chengjun ^a   Gan, Albert ^a   Hadi, Mohammed ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision tree; incident duration; regression

Indexed keywords

COMPARISON RESULT; CONTINUOUS VARIABLES; DECISION TREE MODELS; DEVELOPED MODEL; INCIDENT DURATION; INCIDENT RESPONSE; LANE BLOCKAGE; MISSING VALUES; NUMBER OF LANES; NUMBER OF VEHICLES; PREDICTION ALGORITHMS; PREDICTION MODEL; REGRESSION; TIME OF DAY; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT CENTERS; TREE ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMOBILE EXHIBITIONS; DECISION TREES; FORECASTING; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ACCIDENTS;

ACCIDENTS; ALGORITHMS; AUTOMOBILES; FORECASTS; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROADS;

EID: 82455210229     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2011.2161634     Document Type: Article

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