Capacity of U-turn movement at median openings on multilane highways

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 147-154

  Liu, Pan ^a   Lu, Jian John ^a   Hu, Fengxuan ^a   Sokolow, Gary ^b  

^a University of South Florida   (United States)

^b Florida DOT System Planning Office   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacity; Highways; Intersections; Traffic flow

Indexed keywords

HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; INTERSECTIONS; LINEAR REGRESSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

HARDERS MODEL; KYTE'S METHOD; MULTILANE HIGHWAY; TRAFFIC FLOW;

HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

ESTIMATION METHOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROAD TRANSPORT; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; TAMPA BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 41049089084     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-947X(2008)134:4(147)     Document Type: Article

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