Safety applications of automatic vehicle identification and real-time weather data on freeways

18th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems and ITS America Annual Meeting 2011

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages 1353-1363

  Ahmed, Mohamed ^a   Yu, Rongjie ^a   Abdel Aty, Mohamed ^a  

^a University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION; METEOROLOGY; TOLL HIGHWAYS; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

AVERAGE SPEED; CASE-CONTROL; CRASH ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC TOLL COLLECTION; SAFETY APPLICATIONS; SPACE MEAN SPEED; TRAFFIC SAFETY; TRAVEL TIME ESTIMATION;

ACCIDENTS;

EID: 84896966623     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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