Contraflow Left-Turn Lanes (CLLs) have the potential of being a solution for mitigating congestions at signalized intersections where split phasing is recommended or required. However, current signal timing strategy with CLLs cannot be directly applied (SIWSP). To address this problem, study proposed an innovative strategy, which referred to as Counterclockwise Split Phasing (CSP) timing, imple...

ITE JOURNAL / JUNE 2000 ARTERIAL CAPACITY PROBLEMS The function of an arterial is efficient movement of large traffic volumes over a significant distance.1 As arterial traffic volumes approach roadway capacity, delays grow rapidly at signalized intersections with significant cross-street volumes, diminishing the ability of the arterials to help traffic move effectively. Under conventional arter...

In conversation, speakers become more like each other in various dimensions. This phenomenon, commonly called entrainment, coordination, or alignment, is widely believed to be crucial to the success and naturalness of human interactions. We investigate entrainment in four acoustic and prosodic dimensions. We explore whether speakers coordinate with each other in these dimensions over the conver...

On Japanese high-ways, sharp turn and merging areas are the critical points where the majority of accidents occur. A number of studies have therefore taken place to date on supporting safer driving in merge areas within a framework of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Most of these studies, however, have assumed that drivers merge into the right main lane from the left lane because it i...