Queue Discharge Characteristics of Straight-through Lanes for Taiwan Depressed Urban Streets

In Taiwan, the depressed urban streets were usually sited on intersections in urban area to bypass facilities and avoid the traffic congestion. The traffic flows of depressed urban streets were treated as the un-interrupted flows in the Chapter 10 "Depressed Urban Streets" of the 2011 Taiwan Highway Capacity Manual (2011 HCM). But, the signals were usually settled in the depressed urban street upstream and downstream, and the traffic operation was affected by the signal control obviously. The analysis procedure in 2011 HCM was not realistic and practical. In order to explore the characteristics of the depressed urban streets and find the adjustment factor of slope for revising HCM, this study conducted the field data collection in 9 sites in Taipei metropolitan area. It was found that the queue discharge rates of the straight-through lanes of these streets were significantly lower than those of flat streets, and were affected by geometric design, and these findings could be useful for revising works.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.11175/easts.10.2312
• Summary URL:
  • http://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=Queue+Discharge+Characteristics+of+Straight-through+Lanes+for+Taiwan+Depressed+Urban+Streets&author=P.+Tseng&author=C.+CHANG&author=H.+YANG&publication_year=2013
• Authors:
  • Tseng, Pin-Yi
  • CHANG, Chiung-Wen
  • YANG, Hsin-Yi
• Publication Date: 2013

Language

• English
• Japanese

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 2312-2324
• Serial:
  • Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies
  • EISSN: 1881-1124
  • Serial URL: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/easts/-char/en
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Depressed highways; Geometric design; Highway capacity; Traffic characteristics; Traffic flow; Traffic queuing; Urban highways
• Geographic Terms: Taipei (Taiwan)
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I20: Design and Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01517592
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
• Files: TRIS, JSTAGE
• Created Date: Mar 10 2014 10:52AM