OPTIMIZATION OF SINGLE-LANE FREEWAY TRAFFIC FLOW BY SELECTIVE RAMP CLOSURE

THE DIGITAL COMPUTER IS USED TO SIMULATE FREEWAY TRAFFIC FLOW AND THE EFFECT ON THIS FLOW OF THE INGRESS AND EGRESS OF TRAFFIC FROM THE FREEWAY RAMPS. IT WAS OBSERVED THAT SELECTIVE RAMP CLOSURE ON SINGLE-LANE FREEWAY TRAFFIC FLOW PROVIDES AN EFFECTIVE MEANS FOR ESTABLISHING A MINIMUM FREEWAY VELOCITY AND THUS MAXIMIZES TRAFFIC FLOW. /BPR/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Vol 1, pp 157-163
• Corporate Authors:

  System Development Corporation

  2500 Colorado Avenue
  Santa Monica, CA  United States  90409
• Authors:
  • MIESSE, C C
• Publication Date: 0

Media Info

• Serial:
  • Transportation Research /UK/
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Pergamon Press, Incorporated

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Freeway operations; Freeways; Interchange ramps; Single lane traffic; Traffic flow; Traffic simulation
• Old TRIS Terms: Freeway entrances and exits; Freeway ramps
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00227083
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Traffic Systems Reviews & Abstracts
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 13 2004 6:56PM