The assessment of road safety for passing relief lanes using microsimulation and traffic conflict analysis

Advances in Transportation Studies

Volumn 2, Issue , 2016, Pages 55-64

  Cafiso, S ^a   D'Agostino, Carmelo ^a   Bak R ^b   Kiec M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b CRACOW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

2+1 cross section; Lane changing; SSAM; Surrogate safety measures; Traffic simulation; VISSIM

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; BUDGET CONTROL; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CRASHWORTHINESS; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; RURAL ROADS; SAFETY ENGINEERING; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

2+1 CROSS-SECTION; LANE CHANGING; SAFETY MEASURES; SSAM; TRAFFIC SIMULATIONS; VISSIM;

TRAFFIC SIGNALS;

EID: 84982921633     PISSN: 18245463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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