The capacity of a freeway segment should be measured only when it is an active bottleneck. The properties of flows at active freeway bottlenecks have a bearing on both the definition of capacity and the procedure of capacity analysis. Past studies have examined the flow features at bottlenecks on several freeways in Toronto, Canada, and San Diego, California. This study examined 27 active bottlenecks in the Twin Cities metro area in Minnesota for a 7-week period. The analysis focuses on the properties of prequeue transition flows (PQFs) and queue discharge flows (QDFs) averaged across various time intervals (30-s, daily average, and long-run average). It is found that the proportion by which flows drop after upstream queues form at all studied bottlenecks ranges from 2% to 11%. The 30-s QDFs display high variation and should not be assumed to be constant. The daily average QDFs at each studied bottleneck follow a normal distribution based on two normality tests and visual inspection of the normal probability plot. Results also suggest that the long-run average QDFs [mean of 2,016 passenger cars per lane per hour (pcplph)] and PQFs (mean of 2,124 pcplph) are both normally distributed. The implication of these empirical findings on capacity estimation is also discussed.


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    Titel :

    Some Properties of Flows at Freeway Bottlenecks


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board


    Beteiligte:
    Zhang, Lei (Autor:in) / Levinson, David (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    01.01.2004




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



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