Development of planning-stage models for analyzing continuous flow intersections

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 139, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1124-1132

  Yang, Xianfeng ^a   Chang, Gang Len ^a   Rahwanji, Saed ^b   Lu, Yang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Office of Traffic and Safety   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous flow intersection; Geometric features; Link length design; Planning model

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; CONTINUOUS FLOW INTERSECTIONS; CONTINUOUS-FLOW; GEOMETRIC FEATURE; LEFT-TURN TRAFFIC; LINK LENGTH; PLANNING MODELS; STATE HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATIONS;

DESIGN; HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

INTERSECTIONS;

GEOMETRY; NUMERICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING;

MARYLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84885975940     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)TE.1943-5436.0000596     Document Type: Article

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