TAILING BEHAVIOUR ON MOTORWAYS
VOLGGEDRAG OP AUTOSNELWEGEN
Field data on driving and platoon behaviour have been studied. It seems that tailing behaviour is very constant in nature. There seems to be a general and constant group climate. Average gap length in the fast lane is 1,2 sec, in the slow lane 2,5 sec. The first is quite characteristic, the latter varies between 2,0 and 2,9 sec. Only rain can change these characteristics (10-15% upwards). Platoons of more than 10 vehicles on the fast lane are not influenced by traffic density. Suspected downstream traffic congestion is the strongest incentive to changes in tailing pattern (+20% during peak hours) and this seems the justification for giving more actual traffic information to the road users. (Author/TRRL)
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Corporate Authors:
Royal Dutch Touring Club ANWB
Wassenaarseweg 220, P.O. Box 93200
The Hague, Netherlands - Publication Date: 1983-11
Language
- Dutch
Media Info
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: p. 548-553
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Serial:
- Verkeerskunde
- Volume: 34
- Issue Number: 11
- Publisher: NWB BV/Royal Dutch Touring Club
- ISSN: 0377-8495
- Serial URL: http://www.verkeerskunde.nl
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Behavior; Bunching; Car following; Driver information systems; Drivers; Driving; Freeways; Gap acceptance; Peak periods; Rain; Rainfall; Time; Traffic congestion; Traffic density; Traffic platooning; Vehicle spacing
- ITRD Terms: 9001: Behaviour; 652: Bunching; 632: Congestion (traffic); 1855: Driving (veh); 2752: Motorway; 612: Peak hour; 2507: Rain; 5414: Time; 673: Traffic concentration; 694: Vehicle spacing
- Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00385430
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV
- Files: ITRD, TRIS
- Created Date: May 30 1984 12:00AM