Method for estimating capacity reduction in high-occupancy-vehicle lane ingress and egress sections

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1678, 1999, Pages 107-115

  Xu, Guan ^a,d   Huang, X Peter ^b   Pant, Prahlad ^c  

^a Traffic Engineering Department   (United States)

^b Utah Department of Transportation   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^d Off of Prog Plan and Development   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION; HIGHWAY PLANNING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; POLYNOMIALS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

HIGH-OCCUPANCY-VEHICLE LANE; INGRESS AND EGRESS (I/E) SECTIONS;

HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 0033225856     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1678-14     Document Type: Article

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