Characteristics of traffic flow at nonsignalized T-shaped intersection with U-turn movements

The Scientific World Journal

Volumn 2013, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Fan, Hong Qiang ^a   Jia, Bin ^a   Li, Xin Gang ^a   Tian, Jun Fang ^a   Yan, Xue Dong ^a  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CELLULAR AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOTION; SIMULATION; TRAFFIC; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; TRAFFIC SAFETY; U TURN MOVEMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOTOR VEHICLE; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; MOTOR VEHICLES;

EID: 84877248875     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/856416     Document Type: Article

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