Traffic and speed characteristics on two-lane highways: Field study

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1042-1054

  Hassan, Yasser ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accelaration; Ambient light; Decelaration; Highway geometric design; Operating speed; Traffic composition; Traffic counters

Indexed keywords

CURVES (ROAD); DATA ACQUISITION; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PASSENGER CARS; SPEED CONTROL; TRUCKS;

HORIZONTAL ALIGNMENT; OPERATING SPEED;

HIGHWAY ENGINEERING;

FIELDWORK; RURAL AREA; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT;

EID: 1842480287     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/l03-033     Document Type: Article

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