Improved Design of Vertical Curves with Sight Distance Profiles

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1851, 2003, Pages 13-24

  Hassan, Yasser ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; BRAKING; DECELERATION; HEADLIGHTS; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROADS AND STREETS; TRANSPORTATION;

SIGHT DISTANCE ANALYSIS; STOPPING SIGHT DISTANCES (SSD);

HIGHWAY ENGINEERING;

EID: 1942537076     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1851-02     Document Type: Conference Paper

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