Condition assessment of road equipment - State-of-the-art

Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Lundkvist, Sven Olof ^a   Isacsson, Ulf ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Barrier; Condition assessment; Retroreflectivity; Road equipment; Road lighting; Road marking; Road sign; Traffic signal; Visibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349229860     PISSN: 1822427X     EISSN: 18224288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3846/1822-427X.2008.3.84-92     Document Type: Conference Paper

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