Privacy protection method for fine-grained urban traffic modeling using mobile sensors

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 56, Issue , 2013, Pages 50-69

  Sun, Zhanbo ^a   Zan, Bin ^b   Gruteser, Marco ^b  

^a Jeff)   (United States)

^b The State University of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

Adversary model; Fine grained urban traffic modeling; Mobile traffic sensors; Privacy by design; Privacy protection

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

ADVERSARY MODELING; ADVERSARY MODELS; APPLICATION SPECIFIC; MOBILE TRAFFIC; PRIVACY MECHANISMS; PRIVACY PROTECTION; TRANSPORTATION MODEL; URBAN TRAFFIC MODELING;

DATA PRIVACY;

DESIGN; NUMERICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; URBAN TRANSPORT;

EID: 84883020300     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2013.07.010     Document Type: Article

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