floating car data

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floating car data (uncountable)

  1. (transport) A method to determine the traffic speed on a road network by monitoring the geolocations of drivers' mobile phones.
    • 2012, Martin Treiber, Traffic Flow Dynamics: Data, Models and Simulation, page 7:
      In this chapter, we discuss trajectory data and floating-car data, both providing space-time profiles of vehicles.

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