Identification and calibration of site-specific stochastic freeway breakdown and queue discharge

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2188, 2010, Pages 148-155

  Jia, Anxi ^a   Williams, Billy M ^a   Rouphail, Nagui M ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUEUEING THEORY; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; CONDITION; DISCHARGE MODELS; FREEWAY BOTTLENECKS; PREBREAKDOWN; QUEUE DISCHARGES; SENSORS DATA; SITE-SPECIFIC; STOCHASTIC NATURE; STOCHASTICS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 79551607835     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2188-16     Document Type: Article

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