THE USE OF VIDEO ON THE M1

The M1 motorway is one of Britain's oldest and most heavily trafficked motorways. Like many of these first generation motorways it is now needing substantial repair or reconstruction. One of the principal elements to be considered in the planning and execution of major motorway maintenance contracts is the traffic management. The M1 motorway generally carried flows in the order of 70,000 to 80,000 vehicles per day with peak daily flows approaching 93,000. This traffic has to be accommodated on just one carriageway with two traffic lanes opposing two traffic lanes in contra-flow. The Department of Transport in conjunction with its Transport and Road Research Laboratory is continually seeking to improve methods of traffic management in order to maximise the available road space; to maintain as high a traffic flow as is safely possible; to reduce delays to road users; and to reduce accidents. The paper describes the lead up to the evolution of a new 2 lane central reserve crossover installed on every major maintenance site south of the M6 intersection with M1 for the 1982 contracts. The need for monitoring both video and traffic speed/flow analysis, is established. The type of equipment used, how it was installed, how it performed and what has been obtained from it is described. The paper concludes with a summary of further work proposed for 1983/4. (Author/TRRL)

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was presented during Seminar H, Highway Construction and Maintenance at PTRC's 11th Annual Summer Meeting, Sussex University England, 4-7 July 1983.
• Corporate Authors:

  PTRC Education and Research Services Limited

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• Authors:
  • PARK, C V
• Conference:
  • Planning & Transport Res & Comp, Sum Ann Mtg, Proc
• Publication Date: 1983

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 3-14

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cinematography; Conferences; Construction sites; Contraflow lanes; Freeways; Highway maintenance; Highway traffic control; Maintenance; Medians; Monitoring; Safety; Speed; Surveillance; Television; Television cameras; Traffic control; Traffic flow; Traffic lanes; Traffic safety; Traffic speed; Visual display units
• Uncontrolled Terms: Two; Use
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• Old TRIS Terms: Vdu
• ITRD Terms: 2914: Central reserve; 6752: Cinematography; 8525: Conference; 3628: Construction site; 3847: Maintenance; 2752: Motorway; 5408: Speed; 9101: Surveillance; 6949: Television; 654: Traffic control; 671: Traffic flow; 2827: Traffic lane; 9082: Two; 8119: United Kingdom; 9084: Use; 8630: Visual display
• Subject Areas: Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; I61: Equipment and Maintenance Methods; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00382645
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• ISBN: 0-86050-112-4
• Report/Paper Numbers: Volume P240
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: May 30 1984 12:00AM