Mobile Phones in a Traffic Flow: A Geographical Perspective to Evening Rush Hour Traffic Analysis Using Call Detail Records

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Järv, Olle ^a,b   Ahas, Rein ^a,b   Saluveer, Erki ^a,c   Derudder, Ben ^b   Witlox, Frank ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c Positium LBS   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ESTONIA; EVENING RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; HUMAN; MOBILE PHONE; MOTOR VEHICLE; SUBURBAN AREA; SUBURBAN POPULATION; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; TRAFFIC FLOW; TRAFFIC SAFETY; WORKING TIME; WORKPLACE;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CELLULAR PHONE; ESTONIA; HUMANS; SUBURBAN POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84869137596     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049171     Document Type: Article

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