Impact of 65-mph speed limit on Iowa's rural interstate highways: Integrated Bayesian forecasting and dynamic modeling approach

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1640, 1998, Pages 47-56

  Raju, Shanmuganathan ^a   Souleyrette, Reginald ^a   Maze, Thomas H ^a  

^a Ctr for Transp Res and Education   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORECASTING; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEED CONTROL;

SPEED LIMITS;

TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 0032208147     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1640-07     Document Type: Article

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