Assessing safety benefits of variable speed limits

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1897, 2004, Pages 183-190

  Lee, Chris ^a   Hellinga, Bruce ^a   Saccomanno, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TRAFFIC CONTROL; TRAFFIC SIGNALS; VEHICLES;

CRASH POTENTIAL; ROADWAYS; SPEED LIMIT; SPEED VARIANCE;

SPEED CONTROL;

EID: 17444420140     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1897-24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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