User perceptions and engineering definitions of highway level of service: An exploratory statistical comparison

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 38, Issue 9-10, 2004, Pages 677-689

  Choocharukul, Kasem ^a   Sinha, Kumares C ^b   Mannering, Fred L ^b  

^a CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; QUALITY CONTROL; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL METHODS; TRAFFIC CONTROL; TRANSPORTATION;

LEVEL OF SERVICE (LOS); OPERATIONAL CONDITIONS; PROBABILITY MODELS; TRAFFIC CONDITIONS;

HIGHWAY ENGINEERING;

ROAD TRANSPORT;

EID: 23844471612     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2004.08.001     Document Type: Article

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