An enhanced, integrated design-consistency model for both level and mountainous highways and its relationship to safety

Road and Transport Research

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 13-26

  Polus, Abishai ^a   Pollatschek, Moshe A ^b   Mattar Habib, Caroline ^a   Jarroush, Jad ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b Israel Institute of Technology ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED CONSISTENCY; MOUNTAINOUS HIGHWAYS; SPEED PROFILES;

DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; TRUCKS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

EID: 33644601740     PISSN: 10375783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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