Optimizing highway grades to minimize cost and maintain traffic speed

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 303-310

  Lee, Yusin ^a   Cheng, Juey Fu ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b I SHOU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; HEURISTIC METHODS; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

HIGHWAY GRADES; TRAFFIC SPEED;

HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL;

MOTORWAY;

EID: 0035395610     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-947X(2001)127:4(303)     Document Type: Article

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