Vehicle classification using GPS data

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 37, Issue , 2013, Pages 102-117

  Sun, Zhanbo ^a  

^a Jeff)   (United States)

Author keywords

Global Positioning System (GPS); Mobile traffic sensors; Support Vector Machine (SVM); Vehicle classification

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

FACILITY DESIGNS; MISCLASSIFICATION RATES; MOBILE TRAFFIC; STANDARD DEVIATION; TESTING DATA; TRAINING DATA; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; VEHICLE CLASSIFICATION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

AUTOMOBILE; CLASSIFICATION; GPS; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; URBAN TRANSPORT; ALGORITHM; SENSOR;

EID: 84887194076     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2013.09.015     Document Type: Article

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