Karl F. Petty

A New Methodology for Evaluating Incident Detection Algorithms (1999)

Karl F. Petty, Peter J. Bickel, Jaimyoung Kwon, Michael Ostl, John Rice

We present a novel, off-line approach for evaluating incident detection algorithms. Previous evaluations have focused on determining the detection rate versus false alarm rate curve --- a process...

Accurate estimation of travel times from single-loop detectors

Petty, Karl F., Bickel, Peter, Ostland, Michael, Rice, John, Schoenberg, Frederic, Jiang, Jiming, ...

As advanced traveler information systems become increasingly prevalent the importance of accurately estimating link travel times grows. Unfortunately, the predominant source of highway traffic...