Assessment of non-recurrent traffic congestion caused by freeway work zones and its statistical analysis with unobserved heterogeneity

Transport Policy

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 587-594

  Chung, Younshik ^a  

^a Korea Transport Institute (KOTI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Archived traffic flow data; Frailty; Freeway work zone; Non recurrent traffic congestion; Recurrent traffic congestion; Unobserved heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; HETEROGENEITY; MOTORWAY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PLANNING METHOD; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORTATION POLICY;

GERMANY; KOREA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955707567     PISSN: 0967070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2011.02.003     Document Type: Article

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