Quantifying the attractiveness of high-occupancy toll lanes with traffic sensor data under various traffic conditions

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2229, 2011, Pages 102-109

  Liu, Xiaoyue ^a   Zhang, Guohui ^b   Lao, Yunteng ^a   Wang, Yinhai ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS;

FIELD DATA; FLOW FRICTIONS; HIGH OCCUPANCY TOLL LANES; HIGH-OCCUPANCY TOLLS; PERFORMANCE; SENSORS DATA; SINGLE OCCUPANCY VEHICLES; TRAFFIC CONDITIONS; TRAFFIC SENSORS; VEHICLE USERS;

TRANSPONDERS;

EID: 80053109234     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2229-12     Document Type: Article

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