Stochastic approach for short-term freeway traffic prediction during peak periods

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 660-672

  Qi, Yan ^a   Ishak, Sherif ^b  

^a MONTANA TECH OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b Louisiana State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Freeway traffic prediction; short term prediction; stochastic characteristics; transition probability

Indexed keywords

FREEWAY TRAFFIC; PREDICTION PERFORMANCE; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SHORT TERM PREDICTION; STOCHASTIC CHARACTERISTIC; TRANSITION PROBABILITIES; WEIGHTED AVERAGE METHOD;

FORECASTING; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; SPEED; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 84878724837     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2012.2227475     Document Type: Article

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