Real-time traffic state estimation in urban corridors from heterogeneous data

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 66, Issue , 2016, Pages 99-118

  Nantes, Alfredo ^a   Ngoduy, Dong ^b   Bhaskar, Ashish ^a   Miska, Marc ^a   Chung, Edward ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

First order traffic model; Incremental extended Kalman filter; Multi source data fusion; Urban traffic estimation

Indexed keywords

BLUETOOTH; DATA FUSION; KALMAN FILTERS; REMOTE SENSING; SHOCK WAVES; SMART CARDS; STATE ESTIMATION; STREET TRAFFIC CONTROL; VIDEO CAMERAS;

DATA ASSIMILATION TECHNIQUES; DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM; HETEROGENEOUS DATA; MULTIPLE DATA SOURCES; MULTISOURCE DATA; PARTIAL OBSERVATION; TRAFFIC MODEL; URBAN TRAFFIC;

PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; REAL TIME; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; URBAN TRANSPORT;

EID: 84937604444     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2015.07.005     Document Type: Article

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