Estimating traffic volumes for signalized intersections using connected vehicle data

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 79, Issue , 2017, Pages 347-362

  Zheng, Jianfeng ^a   Liu, Henry X ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Connected vehicle; GPS trajectory; Mobile data; Safety Pilot Model Deployment (SPMD) project; Traffic signal; Traffic volume estimation; Vehicle to infrastructure communication

Indexed keywords

AIR NAVIGATION; COMMERCIAL VEHICLES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; SIGNAL DETECTION; TRAJECTORIES; VEHICLE TO INFRASTRUCTURE;

EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; GPS TRAJECTORIES; MEAN ABSOLUTE PERCENTAGE ERROR; MOBILE DATA; PILOT MODEL; TRAFFIC SIGNAL OPERATION; TRAFFIC VOLUMES; US DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION;

TRAFFIC SIGNALS;

ALGORITHM; DATA PROCESSING; GPS; MOBILE COMMUNICATION; SENSOR; SIGNALING; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORT VEHICLE;

EID: 85017534866     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2017.03.007     Document Type: Article

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