Operating speed prediction models for horizontal curves on rural four-lane highways

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2075, 2008, Pages 1-7

  Gong, Huafeng ^a   Stamatiadis, Nikiforos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINEAR REGRESSION; RURAL AREAS; RURAL ROADS; SPEED;

DESIGN CONSISTENCY; DESIGN SPEED; FOUR LANE HIGHWAYS; HORIZONTAL CURVES; OPERATING SPEED; RURAL HIGHWAYS; SPEED PREDICTION MODELS; TWO-LANE; TWO-LANE HIGHWAYS; UNIFORM DESIGN;

FORECASTING;

EID: 61349184375     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2075-01     Document Type: Article

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