A NATIONWIDE STUDY OF FREEWAY MERGING OPERATIONS
AS A PART OF THE RESEARCH PROJECT GAP ACCEPTANCE AND TRAFFIC INTERACTION IN THE FREEWAY MERGING PROCESS, FIELD STUDIES FOR THE COLLECTION OF DATA WERE PERFORMED ON NATIONWIDE BASIS AT A NUMBER OF SELECTED ENTRANCE RAMPS, UTILIZING AN AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUE. THIS TECHNIQUE, THE DATA REDUCTION METHODS AND THE STUDY SITES SELECTED ARE DESCRIBED IN DETAIL. DATA EDITING ROUTINES AND THE ANALYSIS OF THE DATA FOR BASIC TRAFFIC PARAMETERS ARE DISCUSSED AND SOME OF THESE PARAMETERS USED TO ILLUSTRATE THE MERGING OPERATION AT EACH STUDY SITE. THE QUALITATIVE EFFECT OF VARIOUS GEOMETRIC ELEMENTS ON THE OPERATION AS MIRRORED BY THE TRAFFIC PARAMETERS OF VOLUME, DENSITY, SPEED AND ACCELERATION NOISE ARE DISCUSSED.
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Supplemental Notes:
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Authors:
- Buhr, Johann H
- DREW, DONALD R
- Wattleworth, Joseph A
- Williams, Thomas G
- Publication Date: 1967
Media Info
- Media Type: Print
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: pp 76-122
- Monograph Title: Freeway operations
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Serial:
- Highway Research Record
- Issue Number: 202
- Publisher: Highway Research Board
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Aerial photography; Building entrances; Data collection; Data reduction; Field studies; Freeways; Geometric design; Merging traffic; Ramps; Traffic density; Traffic noise; Traffic speed; Traffic volume
- Old TRIS Terms: Entrances (Other than doors)
- Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00225115
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS, TRB
- Created Date: Feb 20 1994 12:00AM