Road traffic congestion in the developing world

Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Symposium on Computing for Development, DEV 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Jain, Vipin ^a   Sharma, Ashlesh ^b   Subramanian, Lakshminarayanan ^b  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

congestion collapse; simulation; traffic congestion; traffic detection

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED IMAGE PROCESSING; CAMERA IMAGES; CONGESTION COLLAPSE; CONGESTION LEVEL; CRITICAL AREA; DEVELOPING REGIONS; DEVELOPING WORLD; HOTSPOTS; ROAD CAPACITY; ROAD NETWORK; ROAD TRAFFIC; SIGNAL BEHAVIOR; SIMPLE NETWORKS; SIMULATION; SIMULATION-BASED ANALYSIS; SMALL AREA; TIME VARIANT; TIME-PERIODS; TRAFFIC DETECTION; TRAFFIC JAMS; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; EMERGENCY TRAFFIC CONTROL; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; IMAGE QUALITY; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; TRAFFIC SIGNALS; VIDEO CAMERAS;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

EID: 84859882275     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2160601.2160616     Document Type: Conference Paper

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