Practical approach for travel time estimation from point traffic detector data

Journal of Advanced Transportation

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 526-535

  Shen, Luou ^a   Hadi, Mohammed ^b  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Florida International University   (United States)

Author keywords

data filling; speed transformation; traffic detector; trajectory method; travel time estimation

Indexed keywords

DATA FILLING; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL INTERPOLATION; TRAFFIC DETECTORS; TRAJECTORY METHOD; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM; TRAVEL TIME ESTIMATION; TRAVEL TIME RELIABILITY;

ADVANCED TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; ADVANCED TRAVELER INFORMATION SYSTEMS; DETECTORS; ESTIMATION; METADATA; SPEED; TRAVEL TIME;

TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 84883133357     PISSN: 01976729     EISSN: 20423195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/atr.180     Document Type: Article

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