Application of travel time information for traffic management : technical summary.
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2012
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Alternative Title:Joint Transportation Research Program Technical Report Series : Joint Transportation Research Program
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Edition:Technical summary.
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NTL Classification:NTL-PLANNING AND POLICY-Travel Demand ; NTL-PLANNING AND POLICY-PLANNING AND POLICY ; NTL-OPERATIONS AND TRAFFIC CONTROLS-OPERATIONS AND TRAFFIC CONTROLS ; NTL-OPERATIONS AND TRAFFIC CONTROLS-Traffic Flow ; NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Highway Safety ; NTL-INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS-INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS ;
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Abstract:Using conventional methods, it is extremely costly to measure detailed traffic characteristics in high quality spatial or temporal resolution. For analyzing travel characteristics on roadways, the floating car method, developed in the 1920s, has historically been the most used assessment tool. Measuring traffic patterns, such as estimating origin-destination (O-D) matrices, has traditionally required the establishment of cordons with many observers recording license plate numbers which are later cross-referenced. Both applications are very labor intensive because of the need to employ human observers over many hours, meaning that the cost per data point is prohibitive for collecting data for anything besides limited studies.
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