A SIMULATION MODEL OF A TWO-LANE RURAL ROAD

A SIMULATION MODEL HAS BEEN DEVELOPED TO EVALUATE TRAFFIC FLOW AND SAFETY BENEFITS ARISING FROM USE OF REMEDIAL DEVICES WHICH WOULD AID PASSING MANEUVERS ON TWO-LANE RURAL ROADS. INPUTS TO THE MODEL ARE ARBITRARY AND CONSIST OF ROAD CONFIGURATION DATA, VEHICLE DATA, TRAFFIC VOLUMES, AND PASSING PROBABILITY DATA. THE OUT-PUT STATISTICS CAN BE USED TO DETERMINE THE RELATIVE BENEFITS OF ALTERNATIVE REMEDIAL AID SYSTEMS IN TERMS OF SAFETY AND THROUGHPUT. INITIALLY THE EFFECTS OF NO-PASSING ZONE CONFIGURATIONS DUE TO ROAD GEOMETRY AND KNOWLEDGE OF ONCOMING CAR SPEED ON TANGENTS WERE INVESTIGATED. THE RESULTS SHOW THAT NO-PASSING ZONES CAUSE A MARKED DECREASE IN THROUGHPUT, WHILE ONCOMING CAR SPEED INFORMATION APPEARS TO HAVE A BENEFICIAL EFFECT ON SAFETY. ADDITIONAL RUNS WILL BE MADE TO STUDY THE EFFECTS OF OTHER PASSING RULES ON TRAFFIC FLOW AND SAFETY. /AUTHOR/

• Record URL:
  http://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/hrr/1968/257/257-001.pdf
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Paper sponsored by Committee on Operational Effects of Geometrics and presented at the 47th 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:
  • Cassel, Arno
  • Janoff, Michael S
• Publication Date: 1968

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Monograph Title: Simulation and evaluation of traffic engineering measures
• Serial:
  • Highway Research Record
  • Issue Number: 257
  • Publisher: Highway Research Board

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Geometric design; Highway design; Highway safety; Mathematical models; No passing zones; Passing; Rural highways; Simulation; Speed; Statistics; Traffic flow; Traffic safety; Traffic volume; Two lane highways; Vehicle safety; Vehicles
• Uncontrolled Terms: Models
• Old TRIS Terms: Vehicular safety
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00225456
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Feb 10 1994 12:00AM