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Estimation of passenger car unit for heterogeneous traffic stream of urban arterials: case study of Kolkata

Satyajit MondalDepartment of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, IndiaCorrespondence[email protected]
,
Sandip ChakrabortyDepartment of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, Howrah, India
,
Sudip Kumar RoyDepartment of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, Howrah, India
&
Ankit GuptaDepartment of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, India
Pages 1276-1288 | Published online: 20 Feb 2017

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