Effects of the number of lanes on highway capacity

Proceedings of 2007 International Conference on Management Science and Engineering, ICMSE'07 (14th)

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 351-356

  Yang, Xiao Bao ^a   Zhang, Ning ^b  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Empirical research; Highway capacity; Lane change; Number of lanes

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; TRAFFIC SURVEYS;

EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HIGHWAY CAPACITY; LANE CHANGE; NUMBER OF LANES;

HIGHWAY ENGINEERING;

EID: 43549111151     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMSE.2007.4421872     Document Type: Conference Paper

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