Development of a Hybrid Prediction Model for Freeway Incident Duration: A Case Study in Maryland

International Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems Research

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 22-33

  Kim, Woon ^a   Chang, Gang Len ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced traveler information; Incident duration; Logit model; Na ve Bayesian Classifier; Tree model

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED TRAVELER INFORMATION; BAYESIAN CLASSIFIER; INCIDENT DURATION; LOGIT MODEL; TREE MODELS;

ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ADVANCED TRAVELER INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

DATA PROCESSING; FORESTRY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 84855687049     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18688659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13177-011-0039-8     Document Type: Article

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