Predictability of road traffic and congestion in urban areas

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Wang, Jingyuan ^a   Mao, Yu ^a   Li, Jing ^a   Xiong, Zhang ^a   Wang, Wen Xu ^b  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; ENTROPY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; PREDICTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; URBAN AREA; VELOCITY; CAR; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; POLICY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AUTOMOBILES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; URBAN RENEWAL;

EID: 84928914380     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121825     Document Type: Article

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