Deceleration model for two-lane rural roads

Advances in Transportation Studies

Volumn , Issue 11, 2007, Pages 19-32

  Crisman, B ^a   Perco, P ^a   Robba, A ^a   Roberti, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Deceleration rate; Operating speed; Operating speed profile; Two lane rural roads

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION RATES; DECELERATION RATE; GEOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS; OPERATING SPEED; OPERATING SPEED-PROFILE; SAFETY EVALUATIONS; SPEED DIFFERENTIAL; TWO-LANE;

CURVES (ROAD); DECELERATION; FUNCTION EVALUATION; RURAL ROADS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

SPEED;

EID: 61349085917     PISSN: 18245463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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