TRAFFIC DELAY ON URBAN ARTERIAL STREETS AS A RESULT OF CURB PARKING MANEUVERS

URBAN ARTERIAL STREETS ARE DESIGNED TO PROVIDE FOR THROUGH TRAFFIC MOVEMENT AND SOME LAND ACCESS, BUT THEY ARE OFTEN CALLED UPON TO STORE VEHICLES BY PROVIDING CURB PARKING SPACES. THIS STUDY WAS INITIATED TO DETERMINE THE FRICTIONAL EFFECT ON THROUGH MOVEMENT CAUSED BY VEHICLES MANEUVERING INTO AND OUT THESE CURB SPACES. THE DIGITAL COMPUTER SIMULATION METHOD WAS USED FOLLOWING AN EXTENSIVE LITERATURE STUDY AND LIMITED DATA COLLECTION. THE COMPUTER MODEL SIMULATED A TWO-LANE, TOW-WAY, 660-FT. LONG URBAN ARTERIAL STREET BLOCK CONTAINING 20 PARALEL CURB PARKING SPACES. THE MODEL WAS PROGRAMMED IN FORTRAN FOR THE IBM 7094 COMPUTER USING A MODIFIED PHYSICAL REPRESENTATION METHOD OF SIMULATION WITH PERIODIC SCANNING. THE EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN TESTED THREE LEVELS OF SERVICE AND SEVEN PARKING TURNOVER RATES. THE RESULTS OF STATISTICAL TESTS ON THE DATA INDICATED THAT LEVEL OF SERVICE WAS MORE INFLUENTIAL IN DETERMINING THE AMOUNT OF DELAY TO THROUGH VEHICLES THAN PARKING TURNOVER RATE. /AUTHOR/

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Paper sponsored by Committee on Characteristics of Traffic Flow and presented at the 48th Annual Meeting. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
• Authors:
  • Webster, Lee A
• Discussers:
  • Marcellis, Jack C
  • Kell, James H
  • Benioff, Barry
  • Dawson, R F
  • Webster, Lee A
• Publication Date: 1969

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 1-14
• Monograph Title: Parking
• Serial:
  • Highway Research Record
  • Issue Number: 267
  • Publisher: Highway Research Board

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Arterial highways; Data collection; Digital computers; Level of service; Mathematical models; On street parking; Reviews; Statistical analysis; Streets; Traffic delays; Traffic simulation; Turnover; Urban highways
• Identifier Terms: FORTRAN (Computer program language)
• Uncontrolled Terms: Models
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00225495
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Paper No 1
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Sep 22 1994 12:00AM