An investigation of incident frequency, duration and lanes blockage for determining traffic delay

Journal of Advanced Transportation

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 275-299

  Qi, Yi Grace ^a   Teng, Hualiang Harry ^b   Martinelli, David R ^c  

^a TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Las Vegas   (United States)

^c WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROPRIATE MODELS; INCIDENT DATA; INCIDENT DURATION; INCIDENT MANAGEMENT; INFLUENCING FACTOR; LOG-LOGISTIC; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL REGRESSION MODEL; NEW YORK CITY; NUMBER OF LANES; ORDERED PROBIT MODEL; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; STRATEGIC POLICY; TRAFFIC DELAYS; TRAFFIC OPERATION; WEIBULL;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 66249115941     PISSN: 01976729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/atr.5670430303     Document Type: Article

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