Improving the efficiency of freight traffic at congested freeway merging sections

Transportation Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 309-322

  Sarvi, Majid ^a   Kuwahara, Masao ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dynamic Lane Changing; Freight; Heavy commercial vehicles; Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS); Lane Changing Management; Microsimulation; Truck Following Model; Truck Merging Model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883438329     PISSN: 19427867     EISSN: 19427875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3328/TL.2009.01.04.309-322     Document Type: Article

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