Modelling the impact of traffic incidents on travel time reliability

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 65, Issue , 2016, Pages 49-60

  Tavassoli Hojati, Ahmad ^a   Ferreira, Luis ^a   Washington, Simon ^b   Charles, Phil ^a   Shobeirinejad, Ameneh ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Recurrent and non recurrent congestion; Tobit model; Traffic incidents; Travel time reliability

Indexed keywords

RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS; RELIABILITY; TRAVEL TIME;

ESTIMATION RESULTS; INCIDENT DURATION; RECURRENT AND NON-RECURRENT CONGESTIONS; RELIABILITY MEASURE; TRAFFIC CHARACTERISTICS; TRAFFIC INCIDENTS; TRAVEL TIME RELIABILITY; UNOBSERVED HETEROGENEITY;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

MOTORWAY; NUMERICAL MODEL; ROAD TRAFFIC; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAVEL TIME;

AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 84957900820     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2015.11.017     Document Type: Article

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