Research Catalog

Title

Freeway operations, highway capacity, and traffic flow, 1991.

Author

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

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Transportation Research Board, 1991.

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Additional Authors

• Kassabian, Naomi.
• National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. Annual Meeting (1991 : Washington, D.C.)
• National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. Committee on Urban Goods Movement.
• National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. Committee on Applications of Emerging Technology.
• National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. Committee on Freeway Operations.
• 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. HOV Systems Committee.

Description

vii, 268 pages : illustrations, charts, maps, plans; 28 cm.

Series Statement

Transportation research record ; no. 1320

Uniform Title

Transportation research record ; 1320.

Subject

• Express highways
• Highway capacity
• Traffic flow
• Traffic engineering
• limited access highways
• expressways
• traffic
• traffic engineering
• Freeway operations
• Level of service

Note

• "A peer-reviewed publication of the Transportation Research Board."
• Papers contaianed in this record are from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the The Transportation Research Board.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Freeway and Traffic Operations: Benefits of central compute control for Denver ramp-metering system / Louis E. Lipp, Lawrence J. Corcoran, Gordon A. Hickman -- Real-time expert system approach to freeway incident management / Stephen G. Ritchie, Neil A. Prosser -- Improved data screening techniques for freeway traffic management systems / Don Cleghorn, Fred L. Hall, David Garbuio -- Operational evaluation of truck restrictions on I-20 in Texas / Michael C. Zavoina, Thomas Urbanik II, Wanda Hinshaw -- Development of appropriate design-hour volumes for urban freeways in large Texas cities / Carol H. Walters, Christopher M. Poe -- Real-time knowledge-based integration of freeway surveillance data / Neil A. Prosser, Stephen G. Ritchie -- Less-than-truckload trucking in Los Angeles : congestion relief through terminal siting / Randolph W. Hall, Wei Hua Lin -- ALINEA : a local feedback control law for on-ramp metering / Markos Papageorgiou, Habib Hadj-Salem, Jean-Marc Blosseville -- Traffic operation of bicycle traffic / Hein Botma, Hans Papendrecht.
• Highway Capacity: Examination of the speed-flow relationship at the Caldecott Tunnel / Hoong C. Chin, Adolf D. May -- Two-capacity phenomenon at freeway bottlenecks : a basis for ramp metering? / James H. Banks -- Freeway capacity drop and the definition of capacity / Fred L. Hall, Kwaku Agyemang-Duah -- Proposed analytical technique for estimating capacity and level of service of major freeway weaving sections / Michael J. Cassidy, Adolf D. May -- Evaluation of high-volume urban Texas freeways / Thomas Urbaniak II, Wanda Hinshaw, Kirk Barnes -- Toll plaza capacity and level of service / T. Hugh Woo, Lester A. Hoel -- Flow and capacity characteristics on two-lane rural highways / Abishai Polus, Joseph Craus, Moshe Livneh -- Characteristics and level-of-service estimation of traffic flow on two-lane rural roads in Finland / Matti Pursula, Åsa Enberg -- Saturation flow : do we speak the same language? / S. Teply, A.M. Jones -- Delay effects on driver gap acceptance characteristics at two-way stop-controlled intersections / Wayne K. Kittelson, Mark A. Vandehey -- Capacity and delay characteristics of two-way stop-controlled intersections / Michael Kyte (and 4 others) -- Toward a new German guideline for capacity of unsignalized intersections / Werner Brilon, Michael Grossmann, Birgit Stuwe.
• Traffic Flow and Simulation Models: Integrated system of freeway corridor simulation models / Lannon Leiman, Mourad Bouaouina, Adolf D. May -- Procedure for validation of microscopic traffic flow simulation models / Rahim F. Benekohal -- Enhancement and field testing of a dynamic freeway simulation program / Panos Michalapoulos, Eil Kwon, Jeong-Gyu Kang -- Assessment of the traffic experimental and analysis simulation computer model using field data / A. Essam Radwan, Farid Naguib, Jonathan Upchurch -- Simulation of two- and four-way stop control / R.J. Salter, E.A. Ismail -- The two-capacity phenomenon : some theoretical issues / James H. Banks -- Empirical analysis of congested traffic flow characteristics and free speed affected by geometric factors on an intercity expressway / Masato Iwasaki -- Freeway control using a dynamic traffic flow model and vehicle reidentification techniques / Reinhart D. Kühne -- Simulation of crowd behavior and movement : fundamental relations and application / Saad A.H. AlGadhi, Hani S. Mahmassani.

ISBN

• 0309051533
• 9780309051538

LCCN

91043674

OCLC

• ocm24907533
• 24907533
• SCSB-9125373

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library