CAPACITY IMPROVEMENTS ON URBAN EXPRESS ROADS IN FRANCE

How to improve urban expressway capacity on land strips constrained by urban development? To reflect on this subject, the French National Road Directorate commissioned a study group, comprising experts in road design, management, traffic regulation and safety. In order to gain one lane in the cross-section, the group investigated two contrasting options either to remove the hard shoulder, or keep it and reduce other components of the cross-section. The study group clearly proposed that the hard shoulder should be kept because of its significant functions, while reducing the width for each of these components and conditions for their use. In order to check the validity of these proposals, a trial was carried out, under real conditions, on the A6a motorway. As French knowledge of highway capacity (especially for narrow lanes) is insufficient, the study group is preparing a programme for trials and data collections.

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  Danish Road Directorate

  13 Niels Juels Gade, P.O. Box 9018
  Copenhagen K,   Denmark  DK-1022
• Authors:
  • Costilles, M
• Conference:
  • Third International Symposium on Highway Capacity
  • Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Date: 1998-6-22 to 1998-6-26
• Publication Date: 1998-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 59-68

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Design; Expressways; Highway capacity; Improvements; Management; Paved shoulders; Roads; Traffic control; Traffic lanes; Traffic safety; Urban areas; Urban development; Width
• Uncontrolled Terms: Narrow traffic lanes
• Geographic Terms: France
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Design; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00783592
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 8774919059
• Report/Paper Numbers: Country Reports
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 8 2000 12:00AM