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Recurrence Analysis Applications to Short-Term Macroscopic and Microscopic Road Traffic

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The applicability of the theory of Recurrence Plots and Recurrence Quantification Analysis to short-term traffic flow is demonstrated through three distinct road traffic case studies. The first focuses on short-term traffic patterns of volume and speed in urban freeway sections. The second case study examines urban traffic flow dynamics under different traffic conditions and associates them to specific short-term statistical characteristics. The third case study discusses the use of the Recurrence Analysis for modeling the dynamics of the microscopic car following behavior on freeways. The applicability is discussed at a conceptual level and each case study is then presented. Finally, the modeling implications of the results on traffic flow prediction are discussed.

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Recurrence Quantification Analysis was implemented using RQA v14 (http://homepages.luc.edu/~cwebber/) and CRP Toolbox 5.5 (http://tocsy.pik-potsdam.de/CRPtoolbox/).

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  1. Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 5, Iroon Polytechniou Str., Athens, 15773, Greece

    Eleni I. Vlahogianni, Matthew G. Karlaftis & John C. Golias

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  1. Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, Loyola University, Maywood, Illinois, USA

    Charles L. Webber, Jr.

  2. Transdisciplinary Concepts and Methods, Potsdam Institute for Climate Research Research Domain, Potsdam, Germany

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Vlahogianni, E.I., Karlaftis, M.G., Golias, J.C. (2015). Recurrence Analysis Applications to Short-Term Macroscopic and Microscopic Road Traffic. In: Webber, Jr., C., Marwan, N. (eds) Recurrence Quantification Analysis. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07155-8_13

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