Travel time estimation in Urban networks using buses as probes

TAC/ATC 2010 - 2010 Annual Conference and Exhibition of the Transportation Association of Canada: Adjusting to New Realities

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  El Esawey, Mohamed ^a   Sayed, Tarek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUS TRANSPORTATION; BUSES; ESTIMATION; PROBES; RESEARCH; TRAVEL TIME;

GENERAL METHODOLOGIES; MEAN ABSOLUTE PERCENTAGE ERROR; MICROSIMULATION MODELING; STRONG CORRELATION; TRAFFIC CONDITIONS; TRANSIT OPERATORS; TRAVEL TIME CORRELATIONS; TRAVEL TIME ESTIMATION;

TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 84896948625     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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