Relationships between occupancy and density reflecting average vehicle lengths

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1883, 2004, Pages 85-93

  Kim, Youngho ^a   Hall, Fred L ^b  

^a Youngsan University   (South Korea)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OBSTACLE DETECTORS; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROADS AND STREETS; SPEED CONTROL; TRAFFIC CONTROL; TRUCK TRANSPORTATION;

AVERAGE VEHICLE LENGTHS; OCCUPANCY-DENSITY RELATIONSHIPS; PLOTTING VALUES; TRAFFIC VARIABLES;

GROUND VEHICLES;

EID: 14344266393     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1883-10     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (7)

1. Cassidy, M. J., and B. Coifman. Relation Among Average Speed, Flow, and Density and Analogous Relation Between Density and Occupancy. In Transportation Research Record 1591, TRB, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 1997, pp. 1-6.
2. Edie, L. C. Traffic Science (D. C. Gazis, ed.), John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 1974, pp. 8-20.
3. Banks, J. H. Another Look at A Priori Relationships Among Traffic Flow Characteristics. In Transportation Research Record 1510, TRB, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 1995, pp. 1-10.
4. Hall, F. L. The Relationship Between Occupancy and Density. Transportation Forum, Dec. 1986, pp. 46-52.
5. Leutzbach, W. Introduction to the Theory of Traffic Flow. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany, 1988, pp. 82-83.
6. Athol, P. Interdependence of Certain Operational Characteristics Within a Moving Traffic Stream. In Highway Research Record 72, HRB, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 1965, pp. 58-87.
7. TLS: Technische Lieferbedingungen fuer Streckenstationen (German Technical Terms of Delivery for Outstations). German Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt), Bergisch Gladbach, Germany, 1997.