The effect of variability of urban systems characteristics in the network capacity

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1607-1623

  Geroliminis, Nikolas ^a   Boyaci, Burak ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Arterials; Macroscopic fundamental diagram; Simulation; Variational theory

Indexed keywords

RESEARCH; TRANSPORTATION;

ARTERIALS; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; MACROSCOPIC FUNDAMENTAL DIAGRAM; NETWORK STRUCTURES; SIGNAL CHARACTERISTIC; SIMULATION; TRAFFIC ENGINEERING; VARIATIONAL THEORY;

TRAFFIC SIGNALS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION; HETEROGENEITY; NEIGHBORHOOD; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; URBAN SYSTEM; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84867590663     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2012.08.001     Document Type: Article

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