Using ITS to improve the capacity of freeway merging sections by transferring freight vehicles

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 580-588

  Sarvi, Majid ^a   Kuwahara, Masao ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Freeway capacity improvements; Freeway merging sections; Heavy commercial vehicle lane changing; Intelligent transportation systems for freight movement; Merging behavior; Merging microsimulation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILES; BUSES; CONTROL SYSTEMS; FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION; HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TAXICABS; THEOREM PROVING; TRAFFIC SURVEYS; TRANSPORTATION; TRUCKS; VEHICLE LOCATING SYSTEMS; VEHICLES; VIDEO RECORDING;

BEHAVIORAL MODELS; CONGESTED TRAFFICS; CONTROL STRATEGIES; FREEWAY CAPACITY IMPROVEMENTS; FREEWAY MERGING SECTIONS; FREEWAY OPERATIONS; GEOMETRIC DESIGNS; GEOMETRIC INFORMATIONS; HEAVY COMMERCIAL VEHICLE LANE CHANGING; HEAVY COMMERCIAL VEHICLES; HEAVY VEHICLES; INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS FOR FREIGHT MOVEMENT; MERGING PROCESSES; MERGING SECTIONS; OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS; TRAFFIC BEHAVIORS; TRAFFIC CHARACTERISTICS; TRAFFIC CONDITIONS; TRAFFIC DATA COLLECTIONS; TRAFFIC FLOWS; VEHICLE TYPES;

MERGING;

EID: 57249088959     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2008.2006812     Document Type: Article

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