Effect of winter weather and road surface conditions on macroscopic traffic parameters

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2329, 2013, Pages 54-62

  Kwon, Tae ^a   Fu, Liping ^a   Jiang, Chaozhe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROADS AND STREETS; TRAFFIC CONTROL; VISIBILITY; WIND;

AIR TEMPERATURE; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FREE FLOW SPEED; GROUND SURFACE CONDITION; ROAD CONDITION; ROAD SURFACE CONDITION; TRAFFIC PARAMETERS; URBAN FREEWAYS; WIND SPEED; WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS;

SNOW;

EID: 84880709182     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2329-07     Document Type: Article

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