Estimating percent-time-spent-following on two-lane rural highways |
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Authors: | Moshe Cohen Abishai Polus |
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Institution: | aDepartment of Industrial Engineering, Jerusalem College of Engineering, Schreibau Street, Jerusalem, Israel;bDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel |
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Abstract: | This study concentrated on estimating the percent-time-spent-following (PTSF) on two-lane highways. This measure is a key estimate of level-of-service in traffic engineering applications. Its evaluation to date has been based on simulations that yielded over-estimated values. The present study shows how to estimate this variable from easily obtained field data based on queuing theory. The estimates accord with opinions on yielding significantly lower values of PTSF that are expressed in the relevant traffic literature. An improved relationship between PTSF and two-way flow is provided by fitting the new estimates by means of the least-squares method. |
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Keywords: | Highways Rural Two-lane PTSF Queuing |
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