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Title: UNCONVENTIONAL LEFT-TURN ALTERNATIVES FOR URBAN AND SUBURBAN ARTERIALS: AN UPDATE
Accession Number: 00812411
Record Type: Component
Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: Many arterials are hopelessly congested. In many places, engineers have done as much as they can with conventional improvements. Advances like intelligent transportation systems will not provide widespread assistance on arterials for many years. To help treat this impasse, the first author wrote a series for ITE describing seven unconventional design alternatives for arterials. The purposes of this paper are to review five of those alternatives -- the median U-turn, bowtie, superstreet, jughandle, and continuous flow intersection -- and to summarize new information about them. After presenting the advantages and disadvantages of each alternative, the paper suggests when analysts should consider one during feasibility studies and functional designs.
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Monograph Accession #: 00812391
Report/Paper Numbers: E-C019,
Paper A-1 Paper A-2 Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Hummer, J EReid, J DPagination: 17 p.
Publication Date: 2000-12
Serial: Features: Figures
(5)
; References
(14)
; Tables
(4)
TRT Terms: Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure; I73: Traffic Control
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Jun 5 2001 12:00AM
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