MEASUREMENT OF JOURNEY TIME IN URBAN AREAS

RESTIDSMAETNING I TAETORTER

The investigations were undertaken because: (a) there was uncertainty about the effect of different geometrical and environmental conditions on the speed of vehicles on thoroughfares in urban areas; (b) a calculation model for time and vehicle costs as a function of traffic engineering standards was required by the National Road Administration to advise municipalities about "establishing priorities for road and street construction projects in urban areas". The measurements were carried out according to three factors: (1) classification of speeds along thoroughfares by means of the floating car technique; (2) more precise classification of driving speeds and their distribution on certain stretches by means of sectional measurements (simultaneous measurements of traffic flow); (3) more precise classification of total travel time along certain stretches by means of a type of license plate registration technique for calibrating the measurements of type (1) above. The measurements were carried out on two and four lane, 50 and 70 kilometer-per-hour thoroughfares of varying functions and standards. (TRRL)

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  Lund University of Technology, Sweden

  Institution for Traffic Engineering, Fack 725
  S-220 07 Lund 7,   Sweden 
• Authors:
  • Gedda, M
• Publication Date: 1985

Language

• Swedish

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; Photos; Tables;
• Pagination: 67 p.
• Serial:
  • Publication of: Lund University of Technology, Sweden
  • Publisher: Lund University of Technology, Sweden
  • ISSN: 0280-7394

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Costs; License plates; Mathematical models; Measurement; Motor vehicles; Speed; Traffic engineering; Traffic flow; Traffic speed; Travel time; Urban areas
• Uncontrolled Terms: Models
• ITRD Terms: 8513: Classification; 9010: Delay; 2455: Environment; 697: Journey time; 455: Junction; 2885: Layout; 6473: Mathematical model; 6136: Measurement; 221: Operating costs; 5408: Speed; 624: Speed limit; 8109: Sweden; 671: Traffic flow; 565: Traffic signal; 313: Urban area
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00458575
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
• Report/Paper Numbers: Bull. No. 59
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 31 1986 12:00AM