The goals of the research were to develop and test alternative strategies of traffic control that could enhance the safety and efficiency of merging operations within lane-drop merge areas. To accomplish the research goals, a series of work objectives were established, including: (1) An identification and documentation of the state-of-the-art and state-of-the-practice activities in the geometric design and traffic control at the entrance to construction work zones on rural freeways; (2) Development of a merging strategy to facilitate a more efficient merge than conventional designs; (3) Identification of sites on rural freeways in Louisiana to test and compare the conventional and experimental merge configuration; (4) Generation of alternative traffic control schemes for the selected experimental merge design, and apply them to the appointed work zone test site; (5) Recording of lane-specific speed and volume data from the work zone site; and (6) An evaluation and analysis of the traffic data gathered for the experimental and conventional configuration.
Design of Lane Merges at Rural Freeway Construction Work Zones, Tech Summary
2012
2 pages
Report
No indication
English
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