Vehicle sorting for platoon formation: Impacts on highway entry and throughput

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 13, Issue 5-6, 2005, Pages 405-420

  Hall, Randolph ^a   Chin, Chinan ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Highway automation; Queueing; Throughput; Traffic flow

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; QUEUEING THEORY; SAFETY FACTOR; STRATEGIC PLANNING; THROUGHPUT;

AUTOMATED HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; TRAFFIC FLOW; VEHICLE SORTING;

INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

ROAD; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRANSPORT VEHICLE; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM;

EID: 33646792225     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2004.09.001     Document Type: Article

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