A New Lost Time Estimation Method for Right-Turn Traffic in Japan Considering Signal Phasing and Sneakers

This article presents a lost time estimation method for right-turn traffic in Japan (comparable to left-turn traffic in the USA), a strategy that can be used to determine optimal signal phasing schemes at signalized intersections. The authors first present a relevant literature review and then introduce their method, incorporating three conventional signal phasing plans in use in Japan. They then validate the method using field data and a series of case studies from seven intersections in Japan (3 from Tokyo and 4 from Nagoya). The vast majority of vehicles were passenger cars and small trucks; pedestrian volumes were quite small at the intersections under consideration. Sneakers are defined as drivers who complete left turns during the effective red portion of the clearance-and-change interval at the end of a permitted phase. Lost times of right-turn traffic under three conventional phasing plans are theoretically formulated on the basis of a time–space diagram and shock-wave theory. The authors conclude that their proposed method offers a more accurate estimation than conventional approaches, resulting in shorter cycle length and a simplified signal timing process.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1002/atr.191
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/5121625
• Authors:
  • Tang, Keshuang
  • Ono, Takeshi
  • Kuwahara, Masao
  • Tanaka, Shinji
• Publication Date: 2013-12

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 704-719
• Serial:
  • Journal of Advanced Transportation
  • Volume: 47
  • Issue Number: 8
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0197-6729
  • EISSN: 2042-3195
  • Serial URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2042-3195
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Case studies; Estimating; Field studies; Mathematical models; Pedestrians; Red interval (Traffic signal cycle); Right turns; Signalized intersections; Traffic signal phases; Traffic signal timing
• Geographic Terms: Japan
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01541841
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 27 2014 9:27AM