Balancing efficiency and equity of ramp meters

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 131, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 477-481

  Zhang, Lei ^a   Levinson, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ramps; Traffic management; Travel time

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; TRANSPORTATION;

QUASIOPTIMIZATION; RAMP CONTROL; RAMP METERS;

RAMP GENERATORS;

TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT;

EID: 20444439091     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-947X(2005)131:6(477)     Document Type: Article

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