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Acknowledgements

The study was carried out under the STANDARD project (2009–2012) which was funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) under Research Grant EP/G023212/1 led by Tao Cheng. The author would like to thank UK Transport for London (TfL) for providing the traffic data and the constructive comments. The contents of this report reflect the views of the authors who are responsible for the facts and the accuracy of the data presented herein. The contents do not reflect the official views or policies of TfL or any other organizations.

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  1. Centre for Transport Studies, University College London, WC1E 6BT, London, UK

    Andy H. F. Chow

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  1. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Shashi Shekhar

  2. Management Science and Information Systems Department, Rutgers Business School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, USA

    Hui Xiong

  3. Department of Management Sciences, Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

    Xun Zhou

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Chow, A.H.F. (2017). Transport System Performance Analysis with Advanced Sensing Technology. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17885-1_1612

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