SINGLE LANE TRAFFIC FLOW CONTROL

EXPERIMENTS IN THE HOLLAND TUNNEL PREVIOUSLY REPORTED SHOWED PEAK TRAFFIC FLOW COULD BE INCREASED BY RINSERTING GAPS IN THE STREAM. EQUIPMENT DEVELOPED TO PERFORM THIS FUNCTION AUTOMATICALLY IS DESCRIBED AND ITS EFFECTIVENESS EVALUATED. EXTENSION OF THIS SYSTEM REQUIRES PREDICTING BEHAVIOR OF TRAFFIC PLATOONS, AND EXPERIMENTS WITH PLATOONS ARE REPORTED. THE GENERATION OF SHOCK WAVES HAS BEEN OBSERVED IN DETAIL, AND THE RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS TO FORESTALL SHOCK WAVE FORMATION ARE DISCUSSED. INSTRUMENTATION DEVELOPED TO ASSIT FURTHER RESEARCH IS DESCRIBED. /AUTHOR/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Rpt Tbr 5-63, 35 PP, 14 FIG, 11 REF
• Corporate Authors:

  Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

  225 Park Avenue South, 18th Floor
  New York, NY  United States  10003-1604
• Authors:
  • Foote, R S
• Publication Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic control; Gap acceptance; Peak hour traffic; Shock waves; Single lane traffic; Traffic control; Traffic flow; Traffic platooning
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00227259
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 17 1970 12:00AM