Modeling acceleration decisions for freeway merges

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2124, 2009, Pages 45-57

  Choudhury, Charisma F ^a   Ramanujam, Varun ^a   Ben Akiva, Moshe E ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION;

CALIFORNIA; COMBINED MODELING; COMPLEX MECHANISMS; CONGESTED TRAFFIC; GAP-ACCEPTANCE; LANE CHANGING DECISIONS; ON-RAMP; SMALL GAPS; TRAFFIC SITUATIONS; VEHICLE TRAJECTORIES;

MERGING;

EID: 76149134732     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2124-05     Document Type: Article

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