The impact of precipitation on speed–flow relationships along a UK motorway corridor

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 303-316

  Hooper, Elizabeth ^a   Chapman, Lee ^a   Quinn, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; COST ANALYSIS; MOTORWAY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); ROAD TRANSPORT; TRAVEL TIME;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 85028167651     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-013-0999-5     Document Type: Article

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