Some traffic features at freeway bottlenecks

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 33B, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-42

  Cassidy, Michael J ^a   Bertini, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Freeway bottleneck; Freeway capacity

Indexed keywords

MOTORWAY; ROAD TRANSPORT; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

DATA REDUCTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUEUEING THEORY;

FREEWAY BOTTLENECKS;

HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 0032599748     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-2615(98)00023-X     Document Type: Article

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