Whether weather matters to traffic demand, traffic safety, and traffic operations and flow

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1948, 2006, Pages 170-176

  Maze, Thomas H ^a   Agarwal, Manish ^a   Burchett, Garrett ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; COST ACCOUNTING; HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION; HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; PUBLIC POLICY; STRATEGIC PLANNING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

HIGHWAY AGENCIES; MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES; TRAFFIC FLOW; TRAFFIC OPERATIONS;

HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 33750332104     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1948-19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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