Models of acceleration and deceleration rates on a complex two-lane rural highway: Results from a nighttime driving experiment

Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 397-408

  Hu, Wen ^a   Donnell, Eric T ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Complex alignment; Deceleration; Horizontal curves; Recursive system of equations; Seemingly unrelated regression; Two lane rural highway

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; CURVES (ROAD); DECELERATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; RURAL ROADS; TRANSPORTATION;

ACCELERATION AND DECELERATION; ACCELERATION RATES; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; HORIZONTAL CURVES; NIGHT TIME DRIVING; SEEMINGLY UNRELATED REGRESSION; SYSTEM OF EQUATIONS; TWO LANE RURAL HIGHWAYS;

HIGHWAY PLANNING;

EID: 77956960934     PISSN: 13698478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trf.2010.06.005     Document Type: Article

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