The impacts of a communication based merging assistant on traffic flows of manual and equipped vehicles at an on-ramp using traffic flow simulation

IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Proceedings, ITSC

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1468-1473

  Pueboobpaphan, Rattaphol ^a   Liu, Fei ^a   Van Arem, Bart ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIXED TRAFFIC; NEGATIVE SIDE EFFECTS; ON-RAMP; SIMULATION RESULT; TRAFFIC CONDITIONS; TRAFFIC FLOW; TRAFFIC FLOW SIMULATION; TRAFFIC FLOW STABILITY;

ALGORITHMS; FLOW SIMULATION; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MERGING; TRAFFIC SURVEYS;

TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 78650503230     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITSC.2010.5625245     Document Type: Conference Paper

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