Operating Speeds on Curves with and Without Spiral Transitions

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1658, 1999, Pages 9-16

  Passetti, Karl A ^a   Fambro, Daniel B ^b  

^a Kittelson and Associates Inc ^*  (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0347760174     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1658-02     Document Type: Article

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