Inclement weather impacts on freeway traffic stream behavior

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2071, 2008, Pages 8-18

  Rakha, Hesham ^a   Farzaneh, Mohamadreza ^c   Arafeh, Mazen ^b   Sterzin, Emily ^d  

^a Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering ^*  (United States)

^b VIRGINIA TECH TRANSPORTATION INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM   (United States)

^d CAMBRIDGE SYSTEMATICS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; SNOW; SPEED; VISIBILITY;

% REDUCTIONS; ADJUSTMENT FACTORS; CONDITION; FREE FLOW SPEED; FREEWAY TRAFFIC; INCLEMENT WEATHERS; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; TRAFFIC STREAM BEHAVIOR; TRAFFIC STREAMS; WEATHER IMPACT;

RAIN;

EID: 61349168404     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2071-02     Document Type: Article

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