Modeling of required preview sight distance

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 13-20

  Hassan, Y ^a,b   Easa, S M ^c  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TRANSPORTATION PERSONNEL;

HORIZONTAL CURVE; PREVIEW SIGHT DISTANCE; REGRESSION MODEL; STOPPING SIGHT DISTANCE;

CURVES (ROAD);

EID: 0033702091     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-947X(2000)126:1(13)     Document Type: Article

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