A nice night of October 2007, in Beijing, during the XV World Conference on ITS a number of colleagues met informally for a dinner party that spontaneously became a vivid discussion on the importance of traffic data for all types of p- poses. Researchers can hardly do any progress in modeling, developing, and te- ing theories without suitable data, and what practitioners can do in real life is limited not only by technology but also by the availability of the required data. Quite frequently, the data and not the technologies are what determine how far we can go. Any discussion about traffic data leads in a natural way to a discussion on the variety of traffic data sources, formats, levels of aggregation, accuracies, and so on. Consequently, we moved to talk on the initiative that Kuwahara had undertaken in his traffic laboratory at the University of Tokyo, known as the International Traffic Data Base, and thus smoothly but inexorably we came to agree that it would be convenient to organize a workshop to continue our discussion at a more formal level, share our points of view with other colleagues, listen what they had to say and, if possible, d- seminate the findings in our professional and academic communities.
Edited by:
Jaume Barceló, Masao Kuwahara Imprint: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Country of Publication: United States Volume: 144 Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 155mm,
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 521g ISBN:9781441960696 ISBN 10: 1441960694 Series:International Series in Operations Research & Management Science Pages: 243 Publication Date:21 June 2010 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active