European speed environment model for highway design-consistency

Modern Applied Science

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1-10

  Dell'Acqua, Gianluca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Design consistency; Driver behavior; Rural highways; Speed environment; Validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866616421     PISSN: 19131844     EISSN: 19131852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5539/mas.v6n9p1     Document Type: Article

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