Variability of traffic-flow measures across freeway lanes Mark Carter, Hesham Rakha, and Michel Van Aerde

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 270-281

  Carter, M ^a   Rakha, H ^a   Van Aerde, M ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Incident detection algorithms; Traffic modeling; Traffic simulation; Traffic flow theory

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURVE FITTING; ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

INCIDENT DETECTION ALGORITHM; TRAFFIC FLOW THEORY; TRAFFIC MODELING; TRAFFIC SIMULATION;

HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL;

ROAD;

EID: 0032825060     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/l98-065     Document Type: Article

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