Developing guidelines for median barrier installation: Benefit-cost analysis with Texas data

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1904, 2005, Pages 3-19

  Miaou, Shaw Pin ^a   Bligh, Roger P ^a   Lord, Dominique ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; INSTALLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POISSON EQUATION;

AASHTO; HIGH-TENSION CABLE-BARRIERS; MEDIAN BARRIERS;

INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

EID: 27744519297     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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