TRAFFIC BEHAVIOR ON AN URBAN EXPRESSWAY
TRAFFIC BEHAVIOR IS STUDIED IN AN URBAN EXPRESSWAY TRAFFIC PATTERN IN TERMS OF VELOCITY, SPACING, VOLUME AND CHARACTER. A CAMERA WAS USED TO ACQUIRE DATA AND RECORD TRAFFIC PATTERNS ON SIX LANES OF THE JOHN C. LODGE EXPRESSWAY FOR EIGHT CONSECUTIVE DAYS. FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS WERE OBTAINED FOR MEAN VELOCITY, MEDIAN AND MODAL SPACING, LANE DISTRIBUTION, AND COMMERCIAL VEHICLE DISTRIBUTION AS A FUNCTION OF VOLUME. A TREND RELATIONSHIP WAS ESTABLISHED BETWEEN ANNUAL REAR-END COLLISION RATE AND VOLUME AT THE TIME OF ACCIDENT. QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION ON THE EFFECT OF RAIN AND NIGHT DRIVING CONDITIONS ON VEHICLE VELOCITY WAS DETERMINED.
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Supplemental Notes:
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Authors:
- Malo, A F
- Mika, H S
- Walbridge, V P
- Publication Date: 1960
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Pagination: 19p
- Monograph Title: Traffic behavior on freeways
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Serial:
- Highway Research Board Bulletin
- Issue Number: 235
- Publisher: Highway Research Board
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Cameras; Commercial vehicles; Crash analysis; Data collection; Expressways; Lane distribution; Mean (Statistics); Night; Rainfall; Rear end crashes; Recording; Spacing; Traffic crashes; Traffic flow; Traffic volume; Travel patterns; Urban highways; Velocity
- Uncontrolled Terms: Traffic patterns
- Old TRIS Terms: Mean (Statistical); Modal speed
- Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00225355
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS, TRB
- Created Date: Aug 19 1994 12:00AM