Does Information on Weather Affect the Performance of Short-Term Traffic Forecasting Models?

International Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems Research

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

  Tsirigotis, Lykourgos ^a   Vlahogianni, Eleni I ^a   Karlaftis, Matthew G ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Exogenous variables; Short term speed forecasting; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ESTIMATIONS; EXOGENOUS VARIABLES; FORECASTING MODELS; PREDICTION PERFORMANCE; TRAFFIC FLOW CHARACTERISTICS; TRAFFIC FORECASTING; TRAFFIC MIX; TRAFFIC SPEED; VECTOR AUTOREGRESSIVE MOVING AVERAGE MODEL;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84855712710     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18688659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13177-011-0037-x     Document Type: Article

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