Modeling traffic congestion in developing countries using google maps data

Keywords

• ARIMA
• Traffic congestion
• non-motorized vehicles
• developing countries
• support vector regression
• congestion forecasting
• ride-sharing

CCDS Authors

Amin Ahsan Ali, PhD

Amin Ahsan Ali, PhD

• Director, AI/ML Wing

Professor

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Independent University, Bangladesh

Published at

ACL, CHI, UbiComp, ECCV, IJCAI, ECAI, WACV, IPSN, PAKDD, LREC, IJCNN, ICPR, ICIP, BEA, BLP, ICMLA, Scientific Reports, Scientific Data, Pattern Recognition, Information Sciences, Ad Hoc Networks, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, PLOS ONE

Research Interests

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Prof. M Ashraful Amin, PhD

Prof. M Ashraful Amin, PhD

• Founder Director, CCDS
• Director, AI/ML, HCI & DS Wings

Professor

+1 more affiliation

Department of Information Sciences and Technology

George Mason University, USA

Published at

ACL, CHI, UbiComp, ECAI, WACV, PAKDD, IJCNN, ICPR, ICIP, HCII, CLEF, BLP, Scientific Reports, JMIR, IEEE Access, Smart Agricultural Technology, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, PLOS ONE

Research Interests

Machine Learning, Cognitive & Vision Science, Cybernetics, Surveillance & Security, ICT in Education, Health, & Agriculture, Human-Computer Interaction, Internet of Things, Robotics

AKM Mahbubur Rahman, PhD

AKM Mahbubur Rahman, PhD

• Director, DS & IPT Wings

Associate Professor

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Independent University, Bangladesh

Published at

CHI, ECCV, WACV, PAKDD, LREC, IJCNN, ICPR, ICIP, HCII, BEA, Scientific Reports, Information Sciences

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