INTERSECTION CAPACITY STUDY

ACTUAL SERVICE VOLUMES OF 90 APPROACHES TO 53 INTERSECTIONS IN KANSAS CITY, ST. LOUIS AND SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI WERE MEASURED. THESE VOLUMES WERE COMPARED TO THE THEORETICAL VOLUME COMPUTED USING THE 1965 HIGHWAY CAPACITY MANUAL. VARIOUS CHARACTERISTICS OF THE INTERSECTION AND THE COMPUTED ERROR WERE ANALYZED IN ORDER TO IDENTIFY CORRECTIONS. PERCENT ERROR WAS INVERSELY CORRELATED WITH LOAD FACTOR. REVISED CALCULATION USING STANDARD LANE WIDTHS WAS GENERALLY FOUND TO DECREASE THE PERCENT ERROR. /BPR/

• Corporate Authors:

  Missouri State Highway Commission

  Division of Planning
  , MO  United States 

  Bureau of Public Roads /US

  400 7th Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Publication Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Calculation; Errors; Highway capacity; Intersections; Load factor; Traffic forecasting; Traffic volume
• Uncontrolled Terms: Characteristics; Computation; Intersection capacity
• Old TRIS Terms: Intersection census
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00224933
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Bureau of Public Roads /US
• Report/Paper Numbers: 68-2
• Files: TRIS, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Apr 20 1970 12:00AM