Development of a control strategy of variable speed limits to reduce rear-end collision risks near freeway recurrent bottlenecks

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 866-877

  Li, Zhibin ^a   Liu, Pan ^a,b   Wang, Wei ^a,b   Xu, Chengcheng ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Innovation Center of Modern Urban Traffic Technologies   (China)

Author keywords

Control strategy; rear end collision; recurrent bottleneck; safety; variable speed limits (VSLs)

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; SPEED; SPEED CONTROL;

CELL TRANSMISSION MODEL; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; CONTROL STRATEGIES; FREEWAY BOTTLENECKS; PRIMARY OBJECTIVE; REAR-END COLLISIONS; RECURRENT BOTTLENECK; VARIABLE SPEED LIMITS;

RISK PERCEPTION;

EID: 84898783065     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2013.2293199     Document Type: Article

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