Short-term travel time prediction considering the effects of weather

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2308, 2012, Pages 61-72

  Qiao, Wenxin ^a,b   Haghani, Ali ^a   Hamedi, Masoud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGY; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

CONDITION; CONTROL STRATEGIES; MULTIPLE DATA SOURCES; ROAD SYSTEMS; ROAD USERS; SYSTEM CONTROLLERS; TRAFFIC DATA; TRAVEL TIME PREDICTION; TRAVEL-TIME; WEATHER DATA;

TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 84874047814     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2308-07     Document Type: Article

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