Propagation and dissipation of crash risk on saturated freeways

Transportmetrica B

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 203-214

  Kuang, Yan ^a   Qu, Xiaobo ^a   Wang, Shuaian ^b  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cellular automata model; crash risk propagation and dissipation; freeways; time to collision

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922787743     PISSN: 21680566     EISSN: 21680582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21680566.2014.930675     Document Type: Article

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