Evaluating cost-effective railway level crossing protection systems

32nd Australasian Transport Research Forum, ATRF 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Tey, Li Sian ^a   Ferreira, Luis ^a   Dia, Hussein ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b AURECON   (Australia)

Author keywords

Driver behaviour; Driving simulator; Multi criteria analysis; Protection systems; Railway level crossing; Traffic simulation

Indexed keywords

DRIVER BEHAVIOUR; DRIVING SIMULATOR; MULTI CRITERIA ANALYSIS; PROTECTION SYSTEMS; RAILWAY LEVEL CROSSING; TRAFFIC SIMULATIONS;

AUTOMOBILE SIMULATORS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; RAILROADS; RAILS; RESEARCH; SAFETY ENGINEERING; STREET TRAFFIC CONTROL;

RAILROAD CROSSINGS;

EID: 84889949218     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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