Objectives and benchmarks for kinetic theories of vehicular traffic

Transportation Science

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 298-314

  Nelson, Paul ^a   Raney, Bryan ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; FUNCTIONS; KINETIC THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

KINETIC DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; PRIGORINE-HERMAN KINETIC THEORY;

MOTOR TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 0033334769     PISSN: 00411655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/trsc.33.3.298     Document Type: Article

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