PEAK PERIOD COMFORT AND SERVICE EVALUATION OF AN URBAN FREEWAY AND AN ALTERNATE SURFACE STREET

DATA WERE COLLECTED ON THE JOHN C. LODGE FREEWAY IN DETROIT UTILIZING GSR /GALVANJC SKIN RESPONSE/ AND DRIVMETER EQUIPMENT. AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO DETERMINE A COMFORT INDEX UTILIZING THE NORMALIZED SCORES OF /1/ STEERING REVERSALS /2/ SPEED CHANGES /3/ ACCELERATOR REVERSALS /4/ BRAKE APPLICATIONS /5/ NUMBER OF RESPONSES ON THE GSR AND /6/ THE MAGNITUDE OF GSR RESPONSES, A SERVICE INDEX WAS FORMULATED USING THE VARIABLES INCLUDED IN THE COMFORT INDEX ABOVE AND ADDING A TRAVEL TIME VARIABLE WITH A WEIGHT EQUAL TO THE OTHER SIX VARIABLES. THE RESULTS OF THE STUDY INDICATE THAT BOTH THE COMFORT INDEX AND THE SERVICE INDEX PROVIDE A MEASURE OF THE LEVEL OF SERVICE OF THE FACILITY. /BPR/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Hpr, Hpr, 2/103/
• Corporate Authors:

  Nat Prvg Fwy Sur Controls, Detroit

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• Authors:
  • Surti, V H
  • Gervais, E
• Publication Date: 1965-11-24

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Acceleration (Mechanics); Alternatives analysis; Behavior; Braking; Comfort; Data collection; Drivers; Evaluation; Freeways; Galvanic skin response; Indexes (Information management); Level of service; Steering; Traffic speed; Travel time; Urban highways
• Identifier Terms: John C. Lodge Freeway
• Uncontrolled Terms: Service; Speed changes
• Geographic Terms: Detroit (Michigan)
• Old TRIS Terms: Drivometer; Parallel routes
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00222535
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Bureau of Public Roads /US
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 1 1994 12:00AM