Analysis of work zone gaps and rear-end collision probability

Journal of Transportation and Statistics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 71-86

  Sun, Dazhi ^a   Benekohal, Rahim F ^b  

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

^b United States of America   (United States)

Author keywords

Car following patterns; Platoons; Rear end collisions; Work zones

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645472802     PISSN: 10948848     EISSN: 10948848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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