Prediction of Potential Wrong-Way Entries at Exit Ramps of Signalized Partial Cloverleaf Interchanges

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 599-604

  Baratian Ghorghi, Fatemeh ^a   Zhou, Huaguo ^a   Jalayer, Mohammad ^a   Pour Rouholamin, Mahdi ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

computer simulation; partial cloverleaf interchange; Poisson distribution; VISSIM; wrong way driving

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CAR DRIVING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HUMAN; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAFETY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAFETY;

EID: 84926205380     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2014.981651     Document Type: Article

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