Research Catalog

Title

Traffic flow, capacity, and measurements.

Author

National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : National Academy of Sciences, 1983.

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Additional Authors

• Kassabian, Naomi.
• National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
• National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. Committee on Traffic Control Devices.
• National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. Committee on Highway Capacity and Quality of Service.
• National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. Committee on Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics.
• National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. Committee on Methodology for Evaluating Highway Improvements.

Description

viii, 174 pages : illustrations, charts, map, plans; 28 cm.

Series Statement

Transportation research record ; 905

Uniform Title

Transportation research record ; 905.

Subject

• Traffic flow
• Highway capacity
• Traffic surveys
• traffic

Note

• Sponsored by Group 3--Operation and Maintenance of Transportation Facilities.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Minimizing cost of manual traffic counts : Canadian example / Satish C. Sharma -- Tandem toll booths for the Golden Gate Bridge / Randolph W. Hall, Carlos F. Daganzo -- Tandem toll collection systems (Abridgment) / Louis D. Rubenstein -- Reliability of classified traffic count data / Peter Davies, David R. Salter -- Application of counting distribution for high-variance urban traffic counts / Stephen G. Ritchie -- Delay models of traffic-actuated signal controls / Feng-Bor Lin, Farrokh Mazdeyasna -- Another look at bandwidth maximization / Karsten G. Baass -- Calibration of TRANSYT platoon diversion model for passenger cars under low-friction traffic flow conditions (Abridgment) / Patrick T. McCoy (and 3 others) -- Evaluation of dynamic freeway flow model by using field data / N.A. Derzko, A.J. Ugge, E.R. Case -- Passenger-car equivalents for rural highways / Wiley D. Cunagin, Carroll J. Messer -- Traffic data-collection systems : current problems and future promise (Abridgment) / Richard W. Lyles, John H. Wyman -- Analysis of TRANSYT platoon-dispersion algorithm / Nagui M. Rouphail -- Optimization model for isolated signalized traffic intersections / W.B. Cronjé -- Comparison of SOAP and NETSIM : pretimed and actuated signal controls / Zoltan A. Nemeth, James R. Mekemson -- Analysis of existing formulas for delay, overflow, and stops / W.B. Cronjé -- Developmental study of implementation guidelines for left-turn treatments / Han-Jei Lin, Randy B. Machemehl -- Determining capacity and selecting appropriate type of control at one-lane two-way construction sites / Panos G. Michalopoulos, Roger Plum -- Single-lane capacity of urban freeway during reconstruction (Abridgment) / Robert E. Dudash, A.G.R. Bullen -- Comparative analysis of signalized-intersection capacity methods / Adolf D. May, Ergun Gedizlioglu, Lawrence TaI -- Speeds and flows on an urban freeway : some measurements and a hypothesis / V.F. Hurdle, P.K. Datta -- Effectiveness evaluation by using nonaccident measures of effectiveness (Abridgment) / David L. Perkins, Brian L. Bowman -- Surrogate measures for accident experience at rural isolated horizontal curves / Harold T. Thompson, David D. Perkins -- Candidate accident surrogates for highway safety analysis / Skeleton procedure for evaluation of highway safety improvements on a road network / D. Mahalel -- Evaluating need for accident-reduction experiments / William D. Berg, Camil Fuchs -- Common bias in before-and-after accident comparisons and its elimination / Ezra Hauer, Bhagwani Persaud.

ISBN

• 0309035198
• 9780309035194

LCCN

83017412

OCLC

• ocm09895282
• 9895282
• SCSB-9127219

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library