Extracting accurate location information from a highly inaccurate traffic accident dataset: A methodology based on a string matching technique

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 68, Issue , 2016, Pages 185-193

  Miler, Mario ^a   Todić, Filip ^a   Ševrović, Marko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Data validation; Inverse Distance Weighting; Jaro Winkler; OpenStreetMap; Traffic accident

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY VEHICLES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LOCATION;

DATA VALIDATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM RECEIVERS; INVERSE DISTANCE WEIGHTING; INVERSE DISTANCE WEIGHTING METHOD; OPENSTREETMAP; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT LOCATION; VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; WINKLER;

ACCIDENTS;

ACCIDENT; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA SET; GPS; INTERNET; TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGY;

CROATIA; ZAGREB;

EID: 84962630762     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2016.04.003     Document Type: Article

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