Impacts on traffic diversion rates of changed message on changeable message sign

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2047, 2008, Pages 11-18

  Foo, Simon ^a   Abdulhai, Baher ^b   Hall, Fred L ^c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED TRAVELER INFORMATION SYSTEMS; AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS; VARIABLE MESSAGE SIGNS;

CHANGEABLE MESSAGE SIGNS; DIVERSION RATE; DOWN-STREAM; DYNAMIC IMPACTS; LOOP DETECTOR; ONTARIO; TORONTO; TRAFFIC CONDITIONS; TRAFFIC DIVERSION; TRAFFIC FLOW;

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EID: 53049090499     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2047-02     Document Type: Article

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