Modeling of Pedestrian Delays with Pulsed Vehicular Traffic Flow

Transportation Science

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 86-96

  Guo, Xiaoping ^a   Dunne, Michael C ^b   Black, John A ^b  

^a SINCLAIR KNIGHT MERZ   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Pedestrian delay; Platoons; Traffic flow modeling

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROADS AND STREETS; TRAFFIC CONTROL; VEHICLES;

PEDESTRIAN DELAY; PLATOONS; TRAFFIC FLOW MODELING;

PEDESTRIAN SAFETY;

EID: 1642333729     PISSN: 00411655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/trsc.1030.0025     Document Type: Article

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