Assessment of non-recurrent congestion caused by precipitation using archived weather and traffic flow data

Transport Policy

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 167-173

  Chung, Younshik ^a  

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

Author keywords

Archived traffic flow data; Non recurrent congestion; Quantifying congestion; Rainfall; Road weather information systems (RWIS); Snowfall

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORTATION POLICY;

KOREA;

EID: 82055203184     PISSN: 0967070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2011.10.001     Document Type: Article

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