Understanding crash mechanisms and selecting interventions to mitigate real-time hazards on urban expressways

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2213, 2011, Pages 53-62

  Hossain, Moinul ^a   Muromachi, Yasunori ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL;

BASIC FREEWAY SEGMENTS; BLACK SPOT; GENERIC MECHANISM; PREDICTION ACCURACY; RAMP METERING; REAL- TIME; SENSORS DATA; URBAN EXPRESSWAY; VARIABLE SPEED LIMITS; WARNING MESSAGES;

DECISION TREES;

EID: 80052279153     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2213-08     Document Type: Article

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