With the concerns over the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with the surface transportation, the environmentally sustainable traffic signal warrant is essential to provide guidelines for making environmentally conscious decisions about control types at intersections. This research conducted a pilot study on developing CO2 emissions-oriented traffic signal warrants. Intersection control types that were analyzed for this research include two-way stop, four-way stop, traffic signal, and roundabout. Two environmentally sustainable traffic signal warrants were proposed: Type I (without roundabout) and Type II (with roundabout). The proposed traffic signal warrants were compared with the existing mobility-oriented traffic signal warrant of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) in terms of CO2 emissions and total delay. The measurements were collected and estimated using a microscopic traffic simulation tool, Verkehr In Stadten—SIMulationsmodell (VISSIM). The environmentally sustainable traffic signal warrants show that the annual CO2 emissions of the ground transportations in the USA were reduced by 7.2% with Type I warrant and 13.9% with Type II warrant.


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    Title :

    Exploring environmentally sustainable traffic signal warrant for planning application


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2017-08-09


    Size :

    14 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English






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