Modeling travel time reliability of freeways using risk assessment techniques

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1528-1540

  Tu, Huizhao ^a   Li, Hao ^a   van Lint, Hans ^b   van Zuylen, Henk ^b  

^a Tongji Univ   (China)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Instability; Risk assessment; Traffic breakdown; Travel time reliability; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

LARGE DATASET; PLASMA STABILITY; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOURISM INDUSTRY; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

ANALYTICAL FORMULAS; ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUE; FREEWAY TRAFFIC FLOWS; RELIABILITY CONCEPTS; TRAFFIC BREAKDOWN; TRAVEL TIME RELIABILITY; TRAVEL TIME VARIABILITIES; UNCERTAINTY;

TRAVEL TIME;

MODELING; MOTORWAY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 84865631573     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2012.07.009     Document Type: Article

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