Empirical macroscopic evaluation of freeway merge-ratios

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 457-470

  Bar Gera, Hillel ^a   Ahn, Soyoung ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical traffic data; Merge behavior; Merge ratio

Indexed keywords

TRANSPORTATION;

CALIFORNIA; MACROSCOPIC EVALUATION; MERGING BEHAVIOR; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; TRAFFIC DATA;

MERGING;

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; ROAD TRANSPORT; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77952674573     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2009.09.002     Document Type: Article

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