Close following behavior: Testing visual angle car following models using various sets of data

Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 96-110

  Yousif, Saad ^a   Al Obaedi, Jalal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Car following; Close following; Visual angle

Indexed keywords

CRASHWORTHINESS; ROADS AND STREETS; TRAFFIC SURVEYS; VEHICLES;

CAR FOLLOWING; CAR FOLLOWING MODELS; CLOSE FOLLOWING; HEAVY GOODS VEHICLES; INDUCTIVE LOOP DETECTORS; INSTRUMENTED VEHICLE; TRAFFIC SIMULATION MODEL; VISUAL ANGLE;

TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 79951679351     PISSN: 13698478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trf.2010.11.001     Document Type: Article

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