Estimation of critical headway at roundabouts

Signals and Meters at Roundabouts

With the emergence of the modern roundabout as an effective form of traffic control in the United States, more and more information is needed when situations arise in which additional traffic control is required. The signalization and metering of roundabouts can relieve congestion during peak hours of the day as well as possibly provide safer access for pedestrians and cyclists. Although the si...

V2V-Intersection Management at Roundabouts

More than 44% of all automotive crashes occur in intersections. These incidents in intersections result in more than 8,500 fatalities and approximately 1 million injuries each year in USA [1,18]. It is also established that roundabouts are safer than junctions. According to a study of a sampling of roundabouts in the United States, when compared with the junctions they replaced, roundabouts hav...

Capacity and Delay Estimation for Roundabouts Using Conflict Theory

To estimate the capacity of roundabouts more accurately, the priority rank of each stream is determined through the classification technique given in the Highway Capacity Manual 2010 (HCM2010), which is based on macroscopical analysis of the relationship between entry flow and circulating flow. Then a conflict matrix is established using the additive conflict flow method and by considering the ...

Heavy Vehicle Rollover Propensity At Roundabouts On Highspeed Roads

Close Following Behavior: Estimation of Desired Gap Headway Using Loop Detector Data (TECHNICAL NOTE)

The desired gap headway of drivers, while close following, represents the main parameter in determining the following distance between vehicles.  This paper uses the raw individual vehicles data taken from loop detectors for millions of vehicles used M25 and M42 in order to estimate the gap headway distributions between successive pairs of vehicles.  The data used in this paper were filtered so...