DELAYS CAUSED BY CARAVANS ON SINGLE-CARRIAGEWAY ROADS

The paper reports the results of a pilot study carried out by the department of civil engineering, university of nottingham, on behalf of the department of the environment. A caravan of average size was towed round a 1 600-km circuit representative of the general-purpose trunk road network of England by cars of low, medium and high engine capacity and delays to other vehicles were measured. The tests were carried out on weekdays outside the main summer holiday season. Delays under these conditions were found to be quite small-168, 74 and 48 vehicle-minutes per 1 000-km respectively. (A) /TRRL/

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• Authors:
  • Ackroyd, L W
  • Bettison
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Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 56-58
• Serial:
  • Traffic Engineering & Control
  • Volume: 17
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Hemming Group, Limited
  • ISSN: 0041-0683
  • Serial URL: http://www.tecmagazine.com/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Arterial highways; Automobiles; Networks; Primary highways; Queuing; Roads; Speed; Traffic delays; Traffic lanes; Trailers; Weekdays
• Uncontrolled Terms: One; Road networks
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• ITRD Terms: 1058: Air space; 1243: Car; 2992: Carriageway; 9010: Delay; 2748: Main road; 9054: One; 6594: Queue; 5408: Speed; 8119: United Kingdom; 9140: Weekday
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00137513
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 26 1976 12:00AM