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Research Paper

Macroscopic analysis of moving bottlenecks

Karim FadhlounCenter for Sustainable Mobility, Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
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Hesham RakhaCenter for Sustainable Mobility, Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA;The Charles Via, Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Amara LouliziEcole Nationale d’ingénieur de Tunis, LR11ES16 Laboratoire de matériaux, d’optimisation et d’environnement pour la durabilité, Université de Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia
Pages 516-526 | Published online: 29 Nov 2017

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