MERGING BEHAVIOR AT FREEWAY ENTRANCE RAMPS: SOME ELEMENTARY EMPIRICAL CONSIDERATIONS
AN ELEMENTARY EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF MERGING BEHAVIOR IS DISCUSSED, AND IN PARTICULAR OF GAP ACCEPTANCE AND REJECTION BEHAVIOR AT A FREEWAY ENTRANCE RAMP. THE TONE OF THE PAPER IS PURELY EMPIRICAL. NO ATTEMPT IS MADE TO DEVELOP A THEORY OF MERGING. NOR TO VALIDATE ANY EXISTING ANALYTICAL OR SIMULATION MODELS OF THE MERGING PROCESS. RATHER, EMPHASIS IS PLACED ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN IMPROVED ANALYTICAL METHODOLOGY AND ON THE COLLECTION OF BASIC EMPIRICAL INFORMATION OF THE TYPE WHICH MIGHT BE UTILIZED EITHER AS INPUT TO FUTURE THEORETICAL STUDIES, OR IN THE DESIGN OF A REAL-TIME FREEWAY CONTROL SYSTEM. /AUTHOR/
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Supplemental Notes:
- Paper sponsored by Committee on Freeway Operations and Committee on Characteristics of Traffic Flow and presented at the 45th 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.
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Authors:
- Worrall, R D
- Coutts, D W
- Echterhoff-hammerschmid, H
- Berry, D S
- Publication Date: 1967
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: pp 77-107
- Monograph Title: Freeway traffic characteristics and control
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Serial:
- Highway Research Record
- Issue Number: 157
- Publisher: Highway Research Board
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Analysis; Control systems; Empirical methods; Freeway operations; Gap acceptance; Interchange ramps; Merging traffic; Traffic control
- Old TRIS Terms: Freeway entrances and exits; Freeway ramps
- Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00225137
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS, TRB
- Created Date: Jun 5 1994 12:00AM