Using mobile probe data and the macroscopic fundamental diagram to estimate network densities

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2390, 2013, Pages 76-86

  Gayah, Vikash ^a   Dixit, Vinayak ^b  

^a The Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBES; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

CONTROL STRATEGIES; LARGE-SCALES; MACROSCOPIC FUNDAMENTAL DIAGRAM; MOBILE PROBES; NETWORKS DENSITIES; REAL- TIME; SCALE CONTROL; TRAFFIC CONDITIONS; TRAFFIC NETWORK MODELS; URBAN TRAFFIC NETWORKS;

VEHICLES;

EID: 84894267120     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2390-09     Document Type: Article

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