Travel time reliability and the bimodal travel time distribution for an arterial road

Road and Transport Research

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 37-50

  Susilawati, ^a   Taylor, Michael A P ^a   Somenahalli, Sekhar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADELAIDE; ARTERIAL ROADS; LIFE-TESTS; LOG-NORMAL; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RELIABILITY ENGINEERING; TRAVEL TIME; TRAVEL TIME RELIABILITY; TRIP TIME;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; POPULATION STATISTICS; RELIABILITY; TRAFFIC SIGNALS;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 79956350079     PISSN: 10375783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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