ROUNDABOUT ENTRY CAPACITY

This report: gives a brief review of approaches and theoretical models for the calculation of capacity in roundabouts; provides a survey of existing calculation models and summarizes their main characteristics; discusses various geometric and traffic flow parameters; presents a survey of Swedish roundabouts; discusses various hypothesis and attempts to create a new model; describes the data collection method; summarizes the analysis of critical gaps; summarizes the analysis of follow-up times; summarizes the analysis of major headways; discusses the results and proposes a new model; and, contains general conclusions and discusses the usefulness of the present work and the need for continued research.

  • Supplemental Notes:
    • Also pub. as Lund Univ. (Sweden), Dept. of Traffic Planning and Engineering Rept. no. BULL-135. Sponsored by Swedish Transport and Communications Research Board, Stockholm.
  • Corporate Authors:

    Lund University of Technology, Sweden

    Fack S-22007
    Lind 7,   Sweden 
  • Authors:
    • Hagring, O
  • Publication Date: 1996

Language

  • English

Media Info

  • Pagination: 96 p.

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 00729967
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Report/Paper Numbers: LUTVDG-(TVTT-3113)1-102
  • Files: TRIS
  • Created Date: Dec 27 1997 12:00AM