The capacity of motorway merges.

Author(s)
Burrow, I.J.
Year
Abstract

Diagrams have been produced which may be used to determine which geometric arrangements of motorway merging areas are capable of carrying various combinations of entry and main carriageway flows at each of three design flow standards. A method of compensating for variations in the traffic composition and for the effect of gradients is included.

Publication

Library number
B 10438 [electronic version only] /21/72/ IRRD 220258
Source

Crowthorne, Transport and Road Research Laboratory TRRL, 1976, 31 p., 14 graph., 3 tab., 6 ref.; TRRL Report LR 679.

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