Mapping to Cells: A Simple Method to Extract Traffic Dynamics from Probe Vehicle Data

Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 252-267

  He, Zhengbing ^a   Zheng, Liang ^b   Chen, Peng ^c   Guan, Wei ^a  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIG DATA; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA MINING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MAPPING; PROBES;

BEIJING , CHINA; DISCRETE SPACES; FREEWAY NETWORKS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM SOFTWARE; PROBE VEHICLE DATA; THEORY AND PRACTICE; TRAFFIC DYNAMICS; TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

DATA MINING; DIGITAL MAP; GIS; MOTORWAY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

BEIJING [BEIJING (ADS)]; BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 85010878294     PISSN: 10939687     EISSN: 14678667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mice.12251     Document Type: Article

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