Effects of merging and diverging on freeway traffic oscillations

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2188, 2010, Pages 1-8

  Ahn, Soyoung ^a   Laval, Jorge ^b   Cassidy, Michael J ^c  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c 109 McLaughlin Hall   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

CONTINUUM THEORY; DIVERGING FLOW; FLOW CHANGES; FREEWAY TRAFFIC; INDUCTIVE LOOP DETECTORS; INPUT AND OUTPUTS; OFF-RAMP; ON-RAMP; SIMPLE++; STOP-AND-GO;

MERGING;

EID: 79551587136     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2188-01     Document Type: Article

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