Effects of HOV lanes on freeway bottlenecks

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 809-822

  Menendez, Monica ^a   Daganzo, Carlos F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottleneck diagnostics; Freeway traffic control; HOV lanes

Indexed keywords

HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; STRATEGIC PLANNING; VEHICLE ROUTING;

FREEWAY LANE; HIGH OCCUPANCY VEHICLE;

HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL;

ACCESSIBILITY; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 34250642829     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2007.03.001     Document Type: Article

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