Toward the use of avl buses as probes for regular vehicle traffic conditions estimation: A literature review

15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems and ITS America Annual Meeting 2008

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages 6370-6380

  Pu, Wenjing ^a   Lin, Jie ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

AVL; Bus probe; Literature review; Travel information

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC VEHICLE LOCATIONS; AVL; LITERATURE REVIEWS; MODELING TECHNIQUE; REAL-LIFE APPLICATIONS; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES; TRAFFIC PHENOMENON; TRAVEL INFORMATION;

ADVANCED TRAVELER INFORMATION SYSTEMS; DATA HANDLING; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; PROBES; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

BUSES;

EID: 84879010327     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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