Traffic performance on quasi-grid urban structures

Cities

Volumn 36, Issue , 2014, Pages 18-27

  Ortigosa, Javier ^a   Menendez, Monica ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Grid; Link removal; Traffic performance; Urban pattern

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84884542922     PISSN: 02642751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2013.08.006     Document Type: Article

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