Bicycle traffic passing through intersections exhibits a dispersion effect that can influence the movements of nearby vehicles. The primary objective of this study was to investigate the dispersion effect in left-turning bicycle traffic at signalized intersections and to evaluate the effect's influence on the capacity of left-turning vehicles. Characteristics of the dispersion effect were investigated in 20 h of video data collected in Nanjing, China. A Poisson model was estimated to evaluate the factors contributing to platoon width of left-turning bicycle traffic. The impacts of platoon width on the capacity and delay of left-turning vehicles also were evaluated. Results showed that several factors, including the number of left-turning electric bicycles (e-bicycles) and conventional bicycles arriving during the red light period and the directional factor, significantly affected the platoon width of left-turning bicycle traffic. Sensitivity analysis results indicated that the platoon was widest when the number of left-turning e-bicycles divided by the number of total left-turning bicycles arriving per cycle was about 60%. An adjustment factor that accounted for the impacts of left-turning bicycles on the capacity of left-turning vehicles was proposed. Increasing the platoon width of left-turning bicycles from three to eight reduced the left-turning vehicle capacity about 19% and increased the capacity of all left-turning traffic around 25%.
Dispersion Effect in Left-Turning Bicycle Traffic and Its Influence on Capacity of Left-Turning Vehicles at Signalized Intersections
Transportation Research Record
Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board ; 2468 , 1 ; 38-46
2014-01-01
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Electronic Resource
English
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