Study of passing gap acceptance behavior using a driving simulator

Advances in Transportation Studies

Volumn , Issue SPEC.ISSUE, 2007, Pages 9-16

  Farah, H ^a   Polus, A ^a   Bekhor, S ^a   Toledo, T ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Critical gap; Driving simulator; Driving style; Gap acceptance; Passing

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL GAP; DRIVING SIMULATOR; DRIVING STYLES; GAP ACCEPTANCE; PASSING;

AUTOMOBILE SIMULATORS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DIGITAL STORAGE; EXPERIMENTS; RURAL ROADS; SURVEYS; VEHICLES;

STREET TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 76749147322     PISSN: 18245463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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