Empirical study of the effect of offramp queues on freeway mainline traffic flow

The dissertation examines the relationship between the number of lane changes, the speed of the ramp lane, and the location upstream of the ramp split. Analyses indicate the number of lane changes exhibits a parabolic relationship with respect to the ramp lane speed, and the number of lane changes e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Toth, Christopher Stephen
Other Authors: Guensler, Randall
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1853/53098