Exploring the impact of a coordinated variable speed limit control on congestion distribution in freeway

Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering (English Edition)

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 167-178

  Cao, Jing ^a,b   Hu, Dawei ^a   Luo, Ying ^b   Qiu, Tony Z ^b   Ma, Zhuanglin ^a  

^a CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Active traffic demand management; Congestion distribution; Extended METANET model; Freeway queue; Variable speed limit

Indexed keywords

EID: 84997354415     PISSN: 20957564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtte.2015.03.005     Document Type: Review

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