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Title: OPTIMUM LENGTH OF TWO-LANE TWO-WAY NO-PASSING TRAFFIC OPERATION IN CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE ZONES ON RURAL FOUR-LANE DIVIDED HIGHWAYS
Accession Number: 00334172
Record Type: Component
Digital Copy: Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: One method of traffic control in construction and maintenance (CM) zones on rural four-lane divided highways is to close one of the roadways for CM work and to divert traffic from it across the median to the other roadway, which is signed and marked for two-lane two-way no-passing traffic operation. The objective of this study was to determine the optimum length of the two-way operation. An equation was developed for the sum of the increase in road user costs due to the two-way operation and the cost of traffic control as a function of this length. Calculus was then used to derive the optimum length that would minimize the sum of traffic control and additional road user costs. The equation derived for optimum length can be used in the planning and design of crossover-type traffic control systems for CM zones on rural four-lane divided highways. (Author)
Supplemental Notes: Publication of this paper sponsored by Committee on Traffic Safety in Maintenance and Construction Operations.
Monograph Title: Monograph Accession #: 01411593
Authors: McCoy, Patrick TPang, Leslie MPost, Edward RPagination: pp 20-24
Publication Date: 1980
Serial: ISBN: 0309031176
Media Type: Print
Features: Figures
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TRT Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Oct 28 1981 12:00AM
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