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The Effect of Speed Controls on Traffic

A D Mason (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, CB3 9EW)

A W Woods (School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, BS8 1TW (corresponding author))

Mathematics in Transport Planning and Control

ISBN: 978-0-08-043430-8, eISBN: 978-0-58-547418-2

Publication date: 15 December 1998

Abstract

We use a combination of continuum and car-following models to explore the potential impact of speed-controls on (i) decreasing travel times at times of congested flow; and (ii) increasing the safety of motorway flow approaching the site of an accident.

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Mason, A.D. and Woods, A.W. (1998), "The Effect of Speed Controls on Traffic", Griffiths, J.D. (Ed.) Mathematics in Transport Planning and Control, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 351-360. https://doi.org/10.1108/9780585474182-034

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