Impacts of freeway high-occupancy vehicle lane configuration on vehicle emissions

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 112-125

  Boriboonsomsin, Kanok ^a   Barth, Matthew ^a  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

Emissions; Freeway; High occupancy vehicle; Operations; Simulation; Traffic; Weaving

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECELERATION; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

HIGH-OCCUPANCY VEHICLE; MICROSCOPIC TRAFFIC SIMULATION; MODAL EMISSIONS MODEL; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

ACCELERATION; POLLUTANT; SIMULATION; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAFFIC EMISSION; TRANSPORT VEHICLE; TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 39849105337     PISSN: 13619209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trd.2008.01.001     Document Type: Article

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