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Innovative Web Applications for Analyzing Traffic Operations

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Vehicle traffic has been an important research issue. Numerous studies have been conducted providing insights from various levels and perspectives. Researchers analyze traffic in terms of speed, flow rate, density, volume, occupancy, congestion, etc.

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Petrovska, N., Stevanovic, A., Furht, B. (2016). Background and Related Work. In: Innovative Web Applications for Analyzing Traffic Operations. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33319-9_2

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