Behavior-based analysis of freeway car-truck interactions and related mitigation strategies

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 417-451

  Peeta, Srinivas ^a   Zhang, Pengcheng ^a   Zhou, Weimin ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based simulation; Car truck interactions; Driver behavior; Fuzzy logic; Microscopic traffic flow modeling

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION; FUZZY SETS; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL;

CAR-TRUCK INTERACTIONS; FREIGHT TRUCKS; TRAFFIC FLOW; TRAFFIC SYSTEM;

TRUCKS;

TRUCKING;

EID: 10444220237     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2004.06.002     Document Type: Article

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