The present study provides a methodology for identification of the conflict zone between a turning vehicle and on-coming vehicles at uncontrolled median openings on urban roads under mixed traffic conditions. Data for turning movements of different types of vehicles were collected at 13 median openings on 6-lane roads and 8 median openings on 4-lane roads in different cities of India. These data are analyzed statistically and it was found that the critical position (path of the outer wheel) of a vehicle is influenced by the vehicle size and the road width. In the case of 6-lane roads, the critical position of turning vehicle may follow a unimodal or bimodal distribution depending upon the proportion of motorized two-wheelers (2-W) in the turning volume. On 4-lane roads, the gamma distribution was found to fit the placement data at all the eight sections. A simple model is proposed to identify the boundary of the conflict zone at median openings. The geometrical augmentation required at the median opening in order to avoid the conflict between turning vehicles and through traffic in the opposing median lane is also suggested.
Modeling the critical position of U-turning vehicles at uncontrolled median openings
KSCE J Civ Eng
KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering ; 20 , 1 ; 411-420
2016-01-01
10 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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