Truck escape ramps: Need, location and geometric design features

Proceedings, Annual Conference - Canadian Society for Civil Engineering

Volumn 4 A, Issue , 1998, Pages 287-300

  Morrall, John ^a   Abdelwahab, Walid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b ISRA UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Geometric design; Highways; Planning; Truck escape ramps

Indexed keywords

BRAKE CHECKING; BRAKE TEMPERATURE; GEOMETRIC DESIGN; TRUCK ESCAPE RAMPS;

BRAKES; CIVIL ENGINEERING; ROADS AND STREETS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

TRUCKS;

EID: 33645023033     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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