Impact of driver compliance on the safety and operational impacts of freeway variable speed limit systems

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 137, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 260-268

  Hellinga, Bruce ^a   Mandelzys, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b IBI Group   (Canada)

Author keywords

Driver behavior; Traffic management; Traffic models; Traffic safety; Traffic speed

Indexed keywords

DRIVER BEHAVIOR; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRAFFIC MODELS; TRAFFIC SAFETY; TRAFFIC SPEED;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; SPEED CONTROL; VEHICLE ACTUATED SIGNALS;

SPEED;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 79954476306     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)TE.1943-5436.0000214     Document Type: Article

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