Mapping the jitney network with smartphones in Accra, Ghana: The AccraMobile experiment

Transportation Research Record

Volumn 2581, Issue , 2016, Pages 113-122

  Saddier, Simon ^a   Patterson, Zachary ^b   Johnson, Alex ^c   Chan, Megan ^b  

^a Agence Française de Developpement   (Ghana)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^c Physical Planning Department   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; MAPPING;

DATA COLLECTION; DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTS; DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES; DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES; INNOVATIVE METHODOLOGIES; LOCAL AUTHORITIES; PROJECT TEAM; SMART PHONES; TRANSPORTATION NETWORK; TRANSPORTATION SERVICES;

SMARTPHONES;

EID: 84976474599     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: 21694052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2581-14     Document Type: Article

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