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      <title>INTERSECTION DELAY OBTAINED BY SIMULATING TRAFFIC ON A COMPUTER</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[THIS PAPER PRESENTS THE RESULTS OF THE FIRST PHASE OF AN EXTENSIVE PROJECT INVOLVING THE SIMULATION OF VEHICULAR TRAFFIC AT INTERSECTIONS. THE MODEL USED IN THIS PHASE CONSISTED OF THE TIME SIMULATION OF AN ORTHOGONAL INTERSECTION OF TWO TWO-LANE, TWO-WAY STREETS WITH THE MINOR STREET BEING CONTROLLED BY STOP SIGNS. APPROXIMATELY 14,000 HR OF TRAFFIC WERE SIMULATED ON AN IBM 701 COMPUTER. APPROACH VOLUMES RANGED FROM 25 TO 900 VPH WITH 1,900 VPH. DURING MOST OF THE SIMULATION, TURNING MOVEMENTS WERE HELD CONSTANT /10% LEFT AND 10% RIGHT/. ADDITIONAL RUNS WERE MADE AT SELECTED VOLUMES WHERE TURNING MOVEMENTS WERE VARIED TO DETERMINE THE EFFECT OF THE TURNS ON INTERSECTION DELAY. TOTAL INTERSECTION DELAY WAS THE FINAL OUTPUT OF THE SIMULATION. THIS IS RELATED TO INPUT VOLUMES BY MULTIPLE REGRESSION TECHNIQUES. THESE RESULTS ARE COMPARED TO THE OUTPUT FROM THE SECOND PHASE /A SIGNALIZED INTERSECTION/ TO PROVIDE FACTUAL DATA CONCERNING THE EFFECT OF INSTALLING A TRAFFIC SIGNAL AT AN INTERSECTION. /AUTHOR/]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 1994 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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