FILE: OPERATION PALOMAR

DOSSIER: OPERATION PALOMAR

This study was initiated in order to analyse the behaviour of road users during heavy summer traffic. In order to provide a statistical data base the authors have implemented a programme of interviewing drivers on the principal road network of the Rhone Valley: A7 Motorway-National Road A7, National Road 86. The study is presented in the form of a dossier whose different sections are entitled: (1) report on the survey; (2) survey by questionnaire; (3) road and motorway survey - attitude study; (4) enquiry into the usefulness of a sign showing bottleneck areas; (5) flow/rate of occupation curve; (6) comments on the origin of bottlenecks and solutions envisaged; (7) studies of the levels of service. Results of measurement; (8) speed restriction experiments; (9) analysis of the surveys. /TRRL/

• Corporate Authors:

  Aix d'Etudes Techniques de l'Equipement, France

  Petites Routes des Milles
  Aix-en-provence,   France 
• Publication Date: 1977-3

Language

• French

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 173 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Attitudes; Bottlenecks; Drivers; Freeways; Interviewing; Level of service; Methodology; Networks; Questionnaires; Roads; Speed limits; Statistics; Summer; Tourism; Traffic; Traffic congestion; Traffic flow; Traffic signs; Traffic surveys; Travel patterns
• Uncontrolled Terms: Road networks
• Geographic Terms: France
• ITRD Terms: 632: Congestion (traffic); 1772: Driver; 8036: France; 9147: Interview; 9102: Method; 2752: Motorway; 624: Speed limit; 6555: Statistics; 2534: Summer; 9143: Tourism; 755: Traffic; 676: Traffic survey
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00182744
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Report/Paper Numbers: Monograph
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 14 1978 12:00AM