Automobiles on horizontal curves experiments and observations

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1628, 1998, Pages 50-56

  Felipe, Emmanuel ^a   Navin, Francis ^b  

^a Synectics Rd Safety Res Corp   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION MEASUREMENT; CURVES (ROAD); POSITION MEASUREMENT; SPEED; STATISTICAL METHODS;

SPEED MEASUREMENT;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS;

EID: 0032154037     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1628-07     Document Type: Article

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