To increase the capacity of urban expressways in Shanghai, China, additional lanes were created during the past decade through reconstruction. Field measurements indicate that maximum lane width is 3.97 m and minimum width is only 2.73 m. To investigate the relationship between lane width and capacity for urban expressways, 3 months of traffic flow data were extracted and filtered from the system to manage inductive detectors on Shanghai's urban expressways. Analysis of all 440 segments of expressways in Shanghai showed that only 60 sites could reach their capacity; the characteristics of these 60 sites were further analyzed statistically. An analysis of a variance, a regression analysis, and a t-test were used to explore the relationship between lane width and capacity. The research showed that lane width had no statistically significant effect on capacity. Two causes that might account for this finding are discussed further: (a) free-flow speeds are similar for different lane widths according to the findings of a t-test that found no statistically significant differences and (b) the critical speed when capacity is reached for a Shanghai expressway is very low, only 45 km/h. Thus, drivers can deal with a narrow lane width at such a low critical speed. This finding suggests that geometric design policies for capacity purposes should provide substantial flexibility for use of narrower lane widths on urban expressways with low speed limits, although those lane widths must be subject to safety considerations.


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    Titel :

    Relationship of Lane Width to Capacity for Urban Expressways


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Transportation Research Record


    Beteiligte:
    Zheng, Jinxuan (Autor:in) / Sun, Jian (Autor:in) / Yang, Jianhao (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2015-01-01




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch





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