Average time gaps in congested freeway flow

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 539-554

  Banks, James H ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottlenecks; Congested flow; Time gaps; Traffic flow characteristics

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; DECELERATION; HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; POPULATION STATISTICS; PUBLIC POLICY; SPEED; TRAFFIC SURVEYS;

CONGESTED FREEWAY FLOW;

TRANSPORTATION;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

EID: 0038066568     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-8564(03)00011-9     Document Type: Article

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