Considering various ALINEA ramp metering strategies for crash risk mitigation on freeways under congested regime

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 113-134

  Abdel Aty, Mohamed ^a   Dhindsa, Albinder ^a   Gayah, Vikash ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crash risk; Freeway safety; Micro simulation; Ramp metering

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

CRASH RISK; FREEWAY SAFETY; MICRO-SIMULATION; RAMP METERING;

HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; REAL TIME; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY;

EID: 34247592957     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2007.02.003     Document Type: Article

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