Today when 2.2 million passenger cars are travelling on the Hungarian road network, more and more sections and intersections show the symptoms of lack of capacity. The lack of capacity of intersections and sections influences the network capacity and affects unfavourably the numbers of accidents so the development of capacity analysis methods is an important task. Two principal areas of focus are intersections and 2-lane roads. The author developed a simulation method for capacity analysis of road sections and intersections at the Department of Highway and Traffic Engineering of the Budapest University of Technology. The data base for this simulation was obtained through a joint experiment with the Delft University experiment with the Delft University of Technology, Department of Transportation Planning and Highway Engineering. The results of this simulation are consistent with those obtained from other methods. They have the advantage of being based on local data and allowing for extended periods of observation. (A)
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