DRIVER CHARACTERISTICS AT INTERSECTIONS

HEADWAYS AND GAP ACCEPTANCE CHARACTERISTICS OF DRIVERS AT SIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS IN THE PHOENIX METROPOLITAN AREA WERE ANALYZED USING TIME-LAPSE PHOTOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES. SIMULTANEOUS OPERATION OF TWO CAMERAS ALLOWED FOR THE RECORDING OF THE PARTICULAR MOVEMENT INVOLVED AND FOR THE RECORDING OF LICENSE PLATES. OUT-OF-STATE VEHICLES HAVE HEADWAYS SIGNIFICANTLY LONGER THAN IN-STATE VEHICLES WHEN THE VEHICLES IN QUESTION ARE AT THE BEGINNING OR NEAR THE END OF THE QUEUE. WHEN THE OUT-OF-STATE VEHICLES ARE LOCATED IN THE CENTER OF THE QUEUE, THEIR HEADWAYS APPROACH THOSE OF THE IN-STATE REGISTRANTS. FOR LEFT TURNING VEHICLES, THERE IS NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE GAP ACCEPTANCE CHARACTERISTICS OF IN-STATE OR OUT-OF-STATE VEHICLES. VEHICLES REGISTERED IN THE STATES WHICH DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TURN ON RED LAW MAKE LITTLE USE THEREOF. ALL CATEGORIES OF DRIVERS HAD SIMILAR GAP ACCEPTANCE CHARACTERISTICS WHEN THEY DID MAKE USE OF THE LAW. A SIGN INDICATING THE LEGALITY OF THE MOVEMENT INCREASED ITS USAGE BY ALL CATEGORIES OF DRIVERS. /AUTHOR/

• Record URL:
  http://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/hrr/1967/195/195-003.pdf
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Paper sponsored by Committee on Road User Characteristics and presented at the 46th Annual Meeting. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
• Authors:
  • Betz, Mathew J
  • Bauman, Richard D
• Publication Date: 1967

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 34-51
• Monograph Title: Road user characteristics
• Serial:
  • Highway Research Record
  • Issue Number: 195
  • Publisher: Highway Research Board

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Drivers; Gap acceptance; Headways; Human characteristics; Intersections; Left turns; License plates; Recording; Right turn on red; Time lapse photography; Traffic flow; Traffic signals; Vehicles
• Uncontrolled Terms: Driver characteristics
• Old TRIS Terms: Out of state
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Society; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00222693
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Mar 18 2003 12:00AM