Estimating capacity of U-turns at unsignalized intersections: conflicting traffic volume, impedance effects, and left-turn lane capacity

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2071, 2008, Pages 44-51

  Liu, Pan ^a,b   Pan, Tao ^a   Lu, Jian John ^a   Cao, Bing ^a  

^a University of South Florida   (United States)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; INTERSECTIONS; LINEAR REGRESSION;

BAY AREAS; CAPACITY ESTIMATION; FLORIDA; HIGHWAY CAPACITY MANUAL; LEFT TURNS; RESEARCH OBJECTIVES; TAMPA BAY; TRAFFIC DATA; TRAFFIC VOLUMES; UNSIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS;

VEHICLES;

EID: 61349159233     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2071-06     Document Type: Article

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