Stochastic nature of freeway capacity and its estimation

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 842-852

  Polus, Abishai ^a   Pollatschek, Moshe A ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Capacity; Dense flow; Flow breakdown; Freeway flow; Unstable flow

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC SURVEYS; URBAN PLANNING;

FREEWAY CAPACITY;

CIVIL ENGINEERING;

ROAD;

EID: 0037005158     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/l02-093     Document Type: Article

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