Analysis of rainfall impacts on platooned vehicle spacing and speed

Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 395-403

  Rahman, Ashrafur ^a   Lownes, Nicholas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Car following; Driver behavior; Following distance; Gap; Platoon; Rainfall; Speed

Indexed keywords

CRASHWORTHINESS; METEOROLOGY; RAIN; SPEED; VEHICLES;

AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETIES; CAR FOLLOWING; DRIVER BEHAVIOR; FOLLOWING DISTANCE; PERCEPTION REACTION TIME; PLATOON; SPEED DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

EID: 84859649856     PISSN: 13698478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trf.2012.03.004     Document Type: Article

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