Non-parametric estimation of route travel time distributions from low-frequency floating car data

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 58, Issue , 2015, Pages 343-362

  Rahmani, Mahmood ^a   Jenelius, Erik ^a   Koutsopoulos, Haris N ^a,b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Northeastern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic number plate recognition; Floating car data; Kernel estimation; Non parametric; Route travel time distribution; Sampling bias

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION; FLEET OPERATIONS; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; POPULATION STATISTICS; TAXICABS;

AUTOMATIC NUMBER PLATE RECOGNITION; FLOATING CAR DATA; KERNEL ESTIMATION; NON-PARAMETRIC; SAMPLING BIAS; TRAVEL TIME DISTRIBUTIONS;

TRAVEL TIME;

ESTIMATION METHOD; METHODOLOGY; SAMPLING BIAS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; TRAVEL TIME;

STOCKHOLM [STOCKHOLM (CNT)]; STOCKHOLM [SWEDEN]; SWEDEN;

EID: 84940462344     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2015.01.015     Document Type: Article

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