Lane distribution of traffic near merging zones influence of variable speed limits

IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Proceedings, ITSC

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 485-490

  Knoop, Victor L ^a,b   Duret, Aurélien ^c   Buisson, Christine ^c   Van Arem, Bart ^c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c LICIT

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL MEASURES; MERGING PROCESS; ON-RAMP; RAMP METERING; VARIABLE SPEED LIMITS;

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MERGING; SPEED CONTROL; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 78650486953     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITSC.2010.5625034     Document Type: Conference Paper

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