Transportation forecastingTransportation forecasting is the attempt of estimating the number of vehicles or people that will use a specific transportation facility in the future. For instance, a forecast may estimate the number of vehicles on a planned road or bridge, the ridership on a railway line, the number of passengers visiting an airport, or the number of ships calling on a seaport. Traffic forecasting begins with the collection of data on current traffic. This traffic data is combined with other known data, such as population, employment, trip rates, travel costs, etc.
Unique identifierA unique identifier (UID) is an identifier that is guaranteed to be unique among all identifiers used for those objects and for a specific purpose. The concept was formalized early in the development of computer science and information systems. In general, it was associated with an atomic data type. In relational databases, certain attributes of an entity that serve as unique identifiers are called primary keys. In mathematics, set theory uses the concept of element indices as unique identifiers.
Scholarly peer reviewScholarly peer review or academic peer review (also known as refereeing) is the process of having a draft version of a researcher's methods and findings reviewed (usually anonymously) by experts (or "peers") in the same field. Peer review is widely used for helping the academic publisher (that is, the editor-in-chief, the editorial board or the program committee) decide whether the work should be accepted, considered acceptable with revisions, or rejected for official publication in an academic journal, a monograph or in the proceedings of an academic conference.
Revue systématiquethumb|Ce diagramme illustre ce que font les auteurs d'une revue systématique. Une revue systématique est un travail de collecte, d'évaluation critique et de synthèse des connaissances existantes sur une question donnée. Cette question bien définie est issue de l'étude d'une problématique posée par un commanditaire, un gestionnaire, un praticien, un chercheur... Il s'agit, contrairement à une revue narrative et non systématique de la littérature, de minimiser les biais pouvant être inhérents soit à la matière première (données, connaissances) soit à la conduite de la revue elle-même, afin d'atteindre la plus grande objectivité possible.
