Highway Traffic Analysis and Design

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction to the transportation planning process....Pages 3-7
The transportation study area....Pages 8-13
The collection of existing travel data....Pages 14-17
The external cordon and screenline surveys....Pages 18-21
Other surveys....Pages 22-24
Trip generation....Pages 25-34
Trip distribution....Pages 35-52
Modal split....Pages 53-63
Traffic assignment....Pages 64-70
The evaluation of transportation proposals....Pages 71-91
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
The capacity of highways between intersections....Pages 95-106
Headway distributions in highway traffic flow....Pages 107-124
The relationship between speed, flow and density of a highway traffic stream....Pages 125-134
The distribution of vehicular speeds in a highway traffic stream....Pages 135-144
The macroscopic determination of speed and flow of a highway traffic stream....Pages 145-149
Intersections with priority control....Pages 150-155
Driver reactions at priority intersections....Pages 156-162
Delays at priority intersections....Pages 163-170
A simulation approach to delays at priority intersections....Pages 171-181
Weaving action at intersections....Pages 182-188
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
British and U.S. practice for determining the capacity of higher speed weaving sections....Pages 189-200
Queueing processes in traffic flow....Pages 201-210
New forms of single-level intersections....Pages 211-218
Grade-separated junctions....Pages 219-228
The environmental effects of highway traffic noise....Pages 229-244
The environmental effects of highway traffic pollution....Pages 245-249
Traffic congestion and restraint....Pages 250-266
Front Matter....Pages 267-267
Introduction to traffic signals....Pages 269-270
Warrants for the use of traffic signals....Pages 271-274
Phasing....Pages 275-277
Signal aspects and the intergreen period....Pages 278-279
Vehicle-actuated signal facilities....Pages 280-281
The effect of roadway and environmental factors on the capacity of a traffic-signal approach....Pages 282-286
The effect of traffic factors on the capacity of a traffic-signal approach....Pages 287-290
Determination of the effective green time....Pages 291-293
Optimum cycle times for an intersection....Pages 294-298
The timing diagram....Pages 299-301
Early cut-off and late-start facilities....Pages 302-305
The effect of right-turning vehicles combined with straight-ahead and left-turning vehicles....Pages 306-310
The ultimate capacity of the whole intersection....Pages 311-313
Front Matter....Pages 267-267
The optimisation of signal-approach dimensions....Pages 314-318
Optimum signal settings when saturation flow falls during the green period....Pages 319-323
Delay at signal-controlled intersections....Pages 324-328
Determination of the optimum cycle from a consideration of delays on the approach....Pages 329-335
Average queue lengths at the commencement of the green period....Pages 336-341
The co-ordination of traffic signals....Pages 342-343
Time and distance diagrams for linked traffic signals....Pages 344-348
Platoon dispersion and the linking of traffic signals....Pages 349-351
The prediction of the dispersion of traffic platoons downstream of signals....Pages 352-353
The delay/offset relationship and the linking of signals....Pages 354-362
Some area traffic control systems....Pages 363-370
Back Matter....Pages 371-378