Guidelines for estimating capacity at freeway reconstruction zones

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 129, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 572-577

  Al Kaisy, Ahmed ^a   Hall, Fred ^b  

^a Idaho National Laboratory   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Highway construction; Reconstruction; Workspace

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; ESTIMATION; GROUND VEHICLES; HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; LOAD LIMITS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTION (STRUCTURAL);

FREEWAY CAPACITY ESTIMATION;

ROAD CONSTRUCTION;

ESTIMATION METHOD; ROAD TRANSPORT;

CANADA;

EID: 0141566254     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-947X(2003)129:5(572)     Document Type: Article

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