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Observability is defined as a property of the system by which it is possible to uniquely determine the (initial) state (O-D flows) of the system eventually by making regular indirect measurements of the state. In DTA systems, observability implies that given enough sensor data, it is possible to uniquely determine O-D flows without any prior information about them. This thesis develops a methodology to verify the observability property of the O-D estimation model given limited sensor coverage on the network. A case study involving a large-scale network from Los Angeles, California is used to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed approach.","abstract_html":"The estimation of dynamic Origin-Destination (O-D) matrices from aggregated sensor counts is one of the most important and well-researched problems in Dynamic Traffic Assignment (DTA) systems. 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