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Passenger Car Equivalents and Other Adjustment Factors

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It has been said that most of the methodologies of the Highway Capacity Manual involve a series of adjustments to what are relatively simple basic numbers.

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  1. Emeritus, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, New York, NY, USA

    Roger P. Roess

  2. Transportation Engineering, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, New York, NY, USA

    Elena S. Prassas

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Roess, R.P., Prassas, E.S. (2014). Passenger Car Equivalents and Other Adjustment Factors. In: The Highway Capacity Manual: A Conceptual and Research History. Springer Tracts on Transportation and Traffic, vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05786-6_4

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