A Study of the Capacity Drop Phenomenon at Time-Dependent and Time-Independent Bottlenecks
The fact that traffic congestion upstream of a bottleneck causes a reduction in the discharge flow rate through the bottleneck has been well documented in several empirical studies. However, what has been missing is an understanding of the causes of these empirically observed flow reductions. An ide...
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Virginia Tech
2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/76921 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12172010-131604/ |