Modeling driver compliance to VSL and quantifying impacts of compliance levels and control strategy on mobility and safety

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 141, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Hadiuzzaman, Md ^a   Fang, Jie ^a   Karim, Md Ahsanul ^a   Luo, Ying ^a   Qiu, Tony Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Collision prediction model; Driver compliance level; Microscopic simulation; Model predictive control; Variable speed limit

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION; PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS; SPEED; SPEED CONTROL; TRAVEL TIME;

COLLISION PREDICTION MODEL; COLLISION PROBABILITY; DRIVER COMPLIANCE LEVEL; MICROSCOPIC SIMULATION; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SIMULATION EVALUATION; TRANSPORTATION AGENCIES; VARIABLE SPEED LIMITS;

COMPLIANCE CONTROL;

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPLIANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM; MOBILITY; MODELING; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY;

EID: 84947781340     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)TE.1943-5436.0000795     Document Type: Article

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