Enhancing highway capacity by homogenizing traffic flow

Transportmetrica

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 51-61

  Jiang, Rui ^a   Hu, Mao Bin ^a   Jia, Bin ^b   Wang, Ruili ^c   Wu, Qing Song ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Highway capacity; On ramp; Traffic flow

Indexed keywords

EID: 49049100738     PISSN: 18128602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/18128600808685676     Document Type: Article

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