Modeling travelers' responses to incident information provided by variable message signs in Calgary, Canada

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2185, 2010, Pages 71-80

  Kattan, Lina ^a   Habib, Khandker M Nurul ^b   Nadeem, Shahid ^a   Islam, Tazul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED TRAVELER INFORMATION SYSTEMS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; TRANSPORTATION ROUTES; VARIABLE MESSAGE SIGNS;

CALGARY; DISCRETE CHOICE MODELS; DRIVER RESPONSE; ECONOMETRIC MODELLING; EN-ROUTE; INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS; LATENT VARIABLE; REAL-TIME INFORMATION; RESPONSE BEHAVIOUR; ROUTE INFORMATION;

SURVEYS;

EID: 78951490172     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2185-10     Document Type: Article

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