Development of a New Platoon Dispersion Model considering Turning Vehicles in Urban Road Environment

By considering turning vehicles of a platoon that travels on arterial link, a new procedure for calibrating dispersion parameter α of Robertson's model is proposed. Upstream edge of channelized section is served as the boundary and the link between two adjacent intersections is divided into two...

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Main Authors: Yiming Bie, Zhiyuan Liu, Yan Li, Yulong Pei
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2014-08-01
Series:Advances in Mechanical Engineering
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/279570