CAR DRIVERS PULL OUT AT AN ADJACENT TUNNEL WALL

AUTOMOBILISTEN WIJKEN UIT VOOR EEN NABIJGELEGEN TUNNELWAND

As the Dutch contribution to the activities of the PIARC Working Group "Traffic and Geometry" an experimental programme was executed with the aim of analysing the lateral positioning behaviour of car drivers in the vicinity of tunnel entrances in relation to (changes in) the available lateral distance between the right shoulder line and the right tunnel wall. Two tunnels were selected: (1) the Benelux tunnel with a sudden 3.25 m narrowing due to the wall (4.05 m to 0.80 m) at 115 m before the tunnel entrance, and (2) the Vlake tunnel (control condition) with a constant free lateral distance of 4.05 m. Normal traffic in the right lane was recorded with video equipment during the approach and entrance to the tunnels, and the lateral positions of cars were analyzed quantitatively. (Author/TRRL)

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  Royal Dutch Touring Club ANWB

  Wassenaarseweg 220, P.O. Box 93200
  The Hague,   Netherlands 
• Authors:
  • Blaauw, G J
  • Horst, ARA van der
  • Wilmink, A
• Publication Date: 1984-7

Language

• Dutch

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 330
• Serial:
  • Verkeerskunde
  • Volume: 35
  • Issue Number: 7
  • Publisher: NWB BV/Royal Dutch Touring Club
  • ISSN: 0377-8495
  • Serial URL: http://www.verkeerskunde.nl

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aptitude; Behavior; Building entrances; Drivers; Driving; Intersection elements; Location; Methodology; Position fixing; Recording; Television; Television cameras; Traffic surveillance; Tunnels; Walls
• Uncontrolled Terms: Entrances; Modifications
• Old TRIS Terms: Entrances (Other than doors)
• ITRD Terms: 9001: Behaviour; 2226: Driving aptitude; 426: Entrance; 9102: Method; 9048: Modification; 6969: Recording; 6949: Television; 3374: Tunnel; 3368: Wall
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00392354
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 29 1985 12:00AM