Comprehensive Safety Assessment Model of Road Long Tunnel Based on VISSIM

Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 501-514

  Xing, Yingying ^a   Lu, Jian ^a,b   Lu, Linjun ^a   Jiang, Chenming ^a   Cai, Xiaonan ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Evaluation model; Long tunnel; Speed variation; Traffic safety; Traffic simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961365519     PISSN: 10798587     EISSN: 2326005X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10798587.2014.934595     Document Type: Article

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