Capacity drops at merges: An endogenous model

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue , 2011, Pages 12-26

  Leclercq, Ludovic ^a   Laval, Jorge A ^b   Chiabaut, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Active bottleneck; Capacity drop; Kinematic wave model; Merge; Merge ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960098608     PISSN: 18770428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.04.505     Document Type: Conference Paper

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