Safety aspects of freeway weaving sections

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 35-51

  Golob, Thomas F ^a   Recker, Wilfred W ^a   Alvarez, Veronica M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accident analysis; Freeways; Traffic safety; Weaving sections

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; GROUND VEHICLES; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; SAFETY FACTOR; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

LANE CHANGES;

HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

SAFETY; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0346092566     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2003.08.001     Document Type: Article

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