Real-time traffic flow forecasting using spectral analysis

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 519-526

  Tchrakian, Tigran T ^a   Basu, Biswajit ^b   O'Mahony, Margaret ^b  

^a IBM RESEARCH   (Ireland)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Moving horizon; real time traffic forecasting; spectral analysis; trends

Indexed keywords

FLOW BASED; FLOW DATA; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; LOWER FREQUENCIES; MODAL FUNCTIONS; MOVING HORIZON; ONLINE IMPLEMENTATION; REAL TIME TRAFFICS; REAL-TIME IMPLEMENTATIONS; REAL-TIME UPDATING; SHORT TERM PREDICTION; TRAFFIC CHARACTERISTICS; TRAFFIC CONDITIONS; TRAFFIC FLOW; TRENDS; WEIGHTED AVERAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; REAL TIME CONTROL; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84861914607     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2011.2174634     Document Type: Article

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