“…health studies, where kriging techniques have been used for instance to identify areas of contamination or risk of mortality (Goovaerts, 2004(Goovaerts, , 2005(Goovaerts, , 2006(Goovaerts, , 2008(Goovaerts, , 2009). In transportation studies, its implementation has been explored in studies on traffic engineering (Ciuffo, Punzo, & Quaglietta, 2011;Mazzella, Piras, & Pinna, 2011;Zou, Yue, Li, & Yeh, 2012;Zhang & Wang, 2013), vehicle emission gases (Pearce, Rathbun, Aguilar-Villalobos, & Naeher, 2009;Kassteele & Velders 2006;Kassteele & Stein, 2006), and, more recently, to travel demand forecasting problems (Pitombo, Salgueiro, Costa, & Isler, 2015;Lindner, Pitombo, Rocha, & Quintanilha, 2016;Gomes, Pitombo, Rocha, & Salgueiro, 2016;Lindner & Pitombo, 2018). Specifically in traffic data, geostatistical tools have been implemented to analyze the spatial structure of the data under explanatory purposes (Majumdar, Noland, & Ochieng, 2004;Mcmillan, Hanson, & Lapham, 2007;Lascala, Johnson, & Gruenewald, 2001) or toward confirmatory analysis (Manepalli & Bham, 2011;Matsumono & Flores, 2013;Gundogdu, 2014;Molla, Stone, & Lee 2014).…”