The first edition of the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) was published in 1950, and its aim was to provide "a practical guide by which the engineer having determined the essential facts, can design a new highway or revamp an old one with assurance chat the resulting actual capacity will be as calculated. The HCM 1965 first introduced the concept of levels of service, which have been defined based on a selected performance measure such as speed, or density? As highways became more and more congested, people understanding of traffic operations evolved, and so did the needs of the practicing transportation professional. This article provides an overview of the HCM 6th Edition and serves to famliiarize transportation practitioners and researchers with the extensive set of analysis took the publication provides. These analysis tools represent the most recent research on traffic operational analysis, as judged by the HCQSC, whose members include a wide cross-section of transportation professionals within the United States and abroad, representing the public sector, the private sector, and academia.


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    Title :

    THE HIGHWAY CAPACITY MANUAL 6TH EDITION: A GUIDE FOR MULTIMODAL MOBILITY ANALYSIS


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    ITE journal ; 86 , 4


    Publication date :

    2016



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    BKL:    55.00 Technik der Verkehrsmittel, Verkehrswesen: Allgemeines
    Local classification TIB:    770/7010