The 1997 update of the Highway Capacity Manual changes the basis of delay for level-of-service determination at signalized intersections from stopped delay to conceptually more appealing total delay. Total delay is made up of components including volume, control, and geometric delay. Level of service is now defined in terms of control delay, which provides a more stable and tractable relation to total delay, but the issue of field measurement remains in any case. A combined theoretical and empirical approach to measuring field delay on the basis of typical vehicle deceleration and acceleration profiles is taken in this paper. The profiles are related to the relatively easily surveyed quantity of vehicles in queue, which is equivalent to estimating time in queue of all vehicles stopped by the traffic signal. The results indicate that after vehicles in queue are sampled, correction factors can account, in practical terms, for the unsurveyed deceleration and acceleration delay. The corrections are simple additive factors that are a function of free-flow speed and average number of vehicles stopped in queue. Another adjustment is included for the consistent tendency of human observers to overestimate vehicles in queue. All of these factors are included in the new 1997 HCM procedure for measuring signalized intersection delay in the field. Further identified work includes the need to fully develop the total delay concept to account for geometric delay consistently over a variety of interrupted- and uninterrupted-flow facilities. Such resolution should be included in HCM 2000 preparation currently in progress.


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    Title :

    Field Measurement of Signalized Intersection Delay for 1997 Update of the Highway Capacity Manual


    Additional title:

    Transportation Research Record


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    Publication date :

    1998-01-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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