Modeling driver behavior and safety on freeway merging areas

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 134, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 370-377

  Ahammed, Mohammad Alauddin ^a   Hassan, Yasser ^b   Sayed, Tarek A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Driver behavior; Ramps; Traffic safety; Traffic speed; Vehicles

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; AUTOMOBILES; HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; SPEED; TRAFFIC CONTROL; TRAFFIC SURVEYS; VEHICLES;

ACCELERATION LANE; CHANGE LANE; DRIVER BEHAVIOR; RAMPS; SAFETY PERFORMANCES; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT MODELS; TRAFFIC BEHAVIOR; TRAFFIC DATA; TRAFFIC FLOWING; TRAFFIC SAFETY; TRAFFIC SPEED; TRAFFIC VOLUMES;

MERGING;

ACCELERATION; DESIGN; MODELING; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; OTTAWA;

EID: 50049118318     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-947X(2008)134:9(370)     Document Type: Article

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