Operating speed and speed differential for highway design consistency

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 137, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 837-840

  Castro, MarÍa ^a   Sánchez, José F ^b   Sánchez, José A ^a   Iglesias, Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DEL CAUCA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Highway and road design; Models; Traffic safety; Traffic speed

Indexed keywords

COLOMBIA; COLOMBIANS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; CRITICAL FACTORS; DESIGN CONSISTENCY; END POINTS; EQUIVALENT MODEL; HIGHWAY AND ROAD DESIGN; HIGHWAY GEOMETRIC DESIGN; LOCAL CONDITIONS; OPERATING SPEED; PREDICTION MODEL; PROFILE ANALYSIS; ROAD GEOMETRY; RURAL HIGHWAYS; SPEED CHANGE; SPEED DIFFERENTIAL; TO CURVE; TRAFFIC SAFETY; TRAFFIC SPEED; TWO-LANE; VEHICLE SPEED;

DESIGN; FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODELS; ROADS AND STREETS; SPEED;

HIGHWAY PLANNING;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DESIGN; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; RURAL TRANSPORT; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY; VELOCITY;

COLOMBIA;

EID: 84155192429     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)TE.1943-5436.0000309     Document Type: Article

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