Highway design consistency: Refining the state of knowledge and practice

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1881, 2004, Pages 63-71

  Hassan, Yasser ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ACCIDENT PREVENTION; FRICTION; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; VEHICLES;

DEGREE OF CURVE (DC); INTERACTIVE HIGHWAY SAFETY DESIGN MODEL (IHSDM); TRAFFIC SAFETY; TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION OF CANADA (TAC);

HIGHWAY ENGINEERING;

EID: 11844269178     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1881-08     Document Type: Conference Paper

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