Introduction to How to Provide Accurate and Robust Traffic Forecasts Practically?
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Introduction to How to Provide Accurate and Robust Traffic Forecasts Practically?

With  the  development of  our  modern cities,  growing traffic  problems adversely affect people’s  traveling convenience more  and  more,  which  has  become  one  of the  most  crucial factors  considered in urban planning and  design in recent  years.  Urban  traffic congestion is a severe  problem that  significantly reduces the  quality of life in particularly metropolitan areas.  However, frequently constructing new  roads  is not  realistic  and  untenable in social and  economic aspects. In the effort to deal with this intractable problem, so-called intelligent transportation systems (ITS) technologies are successfully implemented widely throughout the world nowadays. ITS with two important components advanced traffic management systems (ATMS) …
Introduction to Deploying Wireless Sensor Devices in Intelligent Transportation System Applications
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Introduction to Deploying Wireless Sensor Devices in Intelligent Transportation System Applications

A recent  study by the UK Government’s Office of Science and  Innovation, which  examined how  future intelligent infrastructure would evolve  to support transportation over  the  next 50 years  looked  at a range  of new  technologies, systems and  services  that  may  emerge over that  period (UK DfT, 2006). One  key  class  of technology that  was  identified as  having a significant role in delivering future intelligence to the transport sector was wireless sensor networks and in particular the fusion of fixed and mobile networks to help deliver a safe, sustainable and robust future transportation system  based  on the better  collection  of data,  its processing and  dissemination and  the  intelligent use …
Introduction to Investigation of Measurement for Travel Time Variability
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Introduction to Investigation of Measurement for Travel Time Variability

Congestion has grown over  the past  two  decades making the travel  time  highly  unreliable. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), US Department of Transportation (USDOT) indicated travel time as an important index to measure congestion. Frequent but stochastic, irregular delays  increase  the challenge for people to plan  their  journey – e.g. when to depart from  the origin,  which  mode(s) and  route(s) to use so the on-time arrival at the destination can  be ensured. In addition to average travel  time,  the  reliability of travel  time  has  been deemed as an index  for quantifying the  effects  of congestion, which  can be applied to the areas of transportation…