Exploring traffic flow databases using space-time plots and data cubes

Transportation

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 215-234

  Song, Ying ^a   Miller, Harvey J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Data cubes; Exploratory analysis; Space time plots; Traffic cubes; Traffic data; Visualization

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION LEVEL; DATA CUBE; DATABASE SOFTWARE; DEPARTMENTS OF TRANSPORTATIONS; EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS; EXPLORATORY VISUALIZATIONS; LARGE DATABASE; METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATIONS; MS ACCESS; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; SPACE-TIME PLOTS; TEMPORAL DIMENSIONS; TRAFFIC DATA; TRAFFIC FLOW; VISUALIZATION TOOLKITS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; VISUALIZATION;

GEOMETRY;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DATA MINING; DATABASE; SOFTWARE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; URBAN TRANSPORT; VISUALIZATION;

UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 84856794792     PISSN: 00494488     EISSN: 15729435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11116-011-9343-z     Document Type: Article

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