Comparing traffic flow time-series under fine and adverse weather conditions using recurrence-based complexity measures

Nonlinear Dynamics

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1949-1963

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

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Complexity measures; Confidence bounds; Precipitation intensity; Recurrence quantification analysis; Traffic flow; Weather conditions

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY MEASURES; CONFIDENCE BOUNDS; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RECURRENCE QUANTIFICATION ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC FLOW; WEATHER CONDITIONS;

TRAFFIC CONTROL;

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 84866142171     PISSN: 0924090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11071-012-0399-x     Document Type: Article

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