Road width requirements of commercial vehicles when cornering.

Author(s)
Brock, G.
Year
Abstract

The road width required by a vehicle to negotiate a bend or corner varies with the design of the vehicle and its size. This report discusses the factors involved and gives some measurements obtained with a sample of commercial vehicles. The results are compared with others obtained using models and by calculation.

Publication

Library number
B 4305 [electronic version only] /21/91/ IRRD 208779
Source

Crowthorne, Transport and Road Research Laboratory TRRL, 1973, 22 p., fig., graph., tab., ref.; TRRL Laboratory Report ; LR 608

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