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https://doi.org/10.3141/1710-10

http://scholar.google.com...anzo&publication_year=2000

With experimental traffic data from a 4-mi (6.44-km) long congested road, it is shown that traffic delays and vehicle accumulations between any two generic observers located inside the road section can be predicted quite accurately from the traffic counts measured at the extremes of the section. Predictions can be made with a streamlined version of the kinematic wave theory that does not rely on ambiguous traffic stream characteristics such as density. The predictions were found not to require recalibration on the day of the experiment and to work well despite what appeared to be location-specific driver behavior.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1710, Traffic Flow Theory and Highway Capacity 2000.

English

p. 85-95

2000

Transportation Research Record

0309066891

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Mathematical prediction; Traffic congestion; Traffic counts; Traffic data; Traffic delays; Traffic flow theory

Kinematic wave theory

Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I71: Traffic Theory

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