Enhancing Traffic State Estimation at Bottlenecks Through Improved Demand Modeling: A Greenshields-Grounded Approach

Yuyan Annie Pan; Xianbiao Hu; Qing Tang; Yanyan Chen; Xuesong Simon Zhou

doi:10.1177/03611981251394673

Enhancing Traffic State Estimation at Bottlenecks Through Improved Demand Modeling: A Greenshields-Grounded Approach

Yuyan Annie Pan
, Xianbiao Hu
, Qing Tang
, Yanyan Chen
, Xuesong Simon Zhou

Pennsylvania State University
Old Dominion University
Beijing University of Technology
Arizona State University

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	175-198
Number of pages	24
Journal	Transportation Research Record
Volume	2680
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981251394673
State	Published - Aug 2026
Externally published	Yes

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

Civil and Structural Engineering
Mechanical Engineering

Keywords

bottleneck analysis
demand-to-capacity ratio
link performance functions
traffic state estimation
travel demand estimation
travel time prediction

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