Freeway Quality of Service: Perceptions from Tractor-Trailer Drivers

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1852, 2003, Pages 19-25

  Hostovsky, Charles ^a   Hall, Fred L ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; ROADS AND STREETS; TRACTORS (AGRICULTURAL); TRAFFIC CONTROL;

HEAVY VEHICLES; HIGHWAY CAPACITY; HIGHWAY SPEEDS; TRAFFIC DENSITY;

HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

EID: 2142710181     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1852-03     Document Type: Conference Paper

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