Use of fuzzy sets to evaluate driver perception of variable message signs

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1937, 2005, Pages 96-104

  Lee, Dongmin ^a   Pietrucha, Martin T ^a   Sinha, Sunil K ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

EIGENVECTOR METHOD; EXOGENOUS FACTORS; HUMAN PERCEPTION; VARIABLE MESSAGE SIGN (VMS);

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 33645506166     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1937-14     Document Type: Article

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