Assessment of level of service (LOS) for entrance ramp merging by using HCM US 2000 and HCM US 2010

• Main Authors: Adnan, M.A (Author), Ahmad R. (Author), Ali U.F.M (Author), Azhari A.W (Author), Azizan N.Z.N (Author), Bakhari, N.S (Author), Dahalan F.A (Author), Ibrahim N. (Author), Kamarudzaman A.N (Author), Noor N.M (Author), Rahim N. (Author), Ridwan F.M (Author), Tuan Badrol Hisham, T.B (Author), Yusof S.Y (Author)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2020
• Subjects: Empirical data; Good practices; Level of Service; Malaysians; Merging; Research papers; Traffic operation; Weaving section
• Online Access: View Fulltext in Publisher
• ISBN: 17551307 (ISSN)
• DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/476/1/012065

Congestion is a normal occurrence on the urban Malaysian expressway system, usually associated with areas having entrance ramp, exit ramp and weaving section. A good practice for expressway system can be determined by the efficiency of the traffic operation itself. Thus, this research paper provides the assessment of level of service for entrance ramp merging using US HCM 2000; US HCM 2010 and empirical data as the indicator. Study was conducted at KM 12, Grand Sepadu Expressway, Selangor and the data were collected by using TRAX Apollyon Automatic Traffic Counter. An analysis was conducted and the RSME result shows that the plotted data are successfully developed and validated in these studies. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.