INFLUENCE OF EXPRESSWAYS IN DIVERTING TRAFFIC FROM ALTERNATE ROUTES AND IN GENERATING NEW TRAFFIC

AN ORIGIN AND DESTINATION STUDY WAS MADE ON AN EXPRESSWAY IN HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, AND THE ALTERNATE STREET ROUTES. DATA INDICATE THAT A TIME SAVINGS WILL NOT RESULT IN 100 PERCENT DIVERSION TO THE EXPRESSWAY FROM COMPETING CITY STREETS. DIVERSIONS OF FROM 40 TO 60 PERCENT WERE OBTAINED WITH SMALL TIME SAVINGS. AN ATTEMPT IS MADE TO MEASURE THE AMOUNT OF TRAFFIC GENERATED BY THE MERRITT AND WILBUR CROSS PARKWAYS, WHICH PARALLEL US 1 ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF CONNECTICUT. THE STATE-WIDE TREND OF GASOLINE CONSUMPTION IS FITTED TO THE TRAFFIC TREND FOR TWO LOCATIONS ON US 1. THE COMBINED PARKWAY AND US 1 TRAFFIC, FOR THE PERIODS FOLLOWING THE COMPLETION OF THE PARKWAYS, RISES ABOVE THE GASOLINE CONSUMPTION TREND, AND THIS RISE IS CREDITED TO THE GENERATION OF NEW TRAFFIC. /AUTHOR/

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Authors:
- Jorgensen, R E
Publication Date: 1948

Media Info

Media Type: Digital/other
Features: Figures; Tables;
Pagination: p. 322-330
Monograph Title: Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Highway Research Board Held at Washington, D.C. December 2-5, 1947
Serial:
- Highway Research Board Proceedings
- Volume: 27
- Publisher: Highway Research Board

Subject/Index Terms

TRT Terms: Consumption; Expressways; Gasoline; Origin and destination; Parkways; Routes; Traffic diversion; Trip generation; Urban highways
Old TRIS Terms: Substitutes
Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

Accession Number: 00228074
Record Type: Publication
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Jul 2 1971 12:00AM