Freeway On-Ramp Metering, Delay Savings, and Diverge Bottleneck

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1856, 2003, Pages 1-5

  Cassidy, Michael J ^a  

^a Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; DELAY CONTROL SYSTEMS; QUEUEING NETWORKS; STREET TRAFFIC CONTROL; VEHICLES;

DELAY SAVINGS; DIVERGE BOTTLENECK; FREEWAY ON-RAMP METERING; ROADWAY NETWORKS;

HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 2142711673     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1856-01     Document Type: Conference Paper

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