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Traffic volume is the most important characteristic in most traffic studies, which is regularly measured by sampling methods for a given road. Traffic volume has determining effect in specifying network origin-destination demand, improvement of roads, traffic distributions over the network, improving road parameters, air pollution and in other aspects of flow in the network. There are many ways to measure traffic volume in different situations. However, most of them are expensive to implement and in cases which take a long time to do the survey, or the number of locations are excessive, the operation would not be cost-effective. In this research we investigate using macroscopic... 

Target localization using positioning systems has long been considered by researchers in various fields.One of the important issues in localizing a target is the accuracy of its determined position. There are several parameters in the accuracy of position estimation. In a comprehensive view, these parameters can be divided into three general factors,including the relative geometry of the transmitters/receivers with respect to the target, the accuracy of measurements, and the type of target position estimator.The first factor, i.e. the relative geometry between the target and the transmit/receive antennas, plays an important role in localization accuracy. In the first part of this thesis, the...