Systematic identification of freeway bottlenecks

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1867, 2004, Pages 46-52

  Chen, Chao ^a   Skabardonis, Alexander ^a   Varaiya, Pravin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; DATA REDUCTION; DETECTORS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SPEED CONTROL; TRAFFIC CONTROL; TRANSPORTATION;

BOTTLENECKS; HOV LANES; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAFFIC DIVERSION;

HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

EID: 10944245416     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1867-06     Document Type: Conference Paper

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