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Occupancy Time-Based Passenger Car Equivalents at Unsignalized Intersections in India


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1 Department of Civil Engineering, MES College of Engineering, Kuttippuram 679 573, India
2 Central Road Research Institute, New Delhi 110 025, India
 

In developing countries, one of the vital steps involved in analysing the capacity of any transportation facility is the estimation of passenger car equivalents (PCEs) for different types of vehicles to convert the heterogeneous traffic stream into an equivalent stream of passenger cars. This study proposes occupancy time method for the estimation of PCEs for different types of vehicles generally observed at unsignalized intersections in India. PCEs for vehicles executing different movements at unsignalized intersections have been estimated in this study and the dynamic nature of PCEs has also been explored. However, PCEs were found to be statistically similar across different movements and across intersections of different geometry.

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Heterogeneous Traffic Conditions, Occupancy Time, Passenger Car Equivalents, Unsignalized Intersections.
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Authors

Mithun Mohan
Department of Civil Engineering, MES College of Engineering, Kuttippuram 679 573, India
Satish Chandra
Central Road Research Institute, New Delhi 110 025, India

Abstract


In developing countries, one of the vital steps involved in analysing the capacity of any transportation facility is the estimation of passenger car equivalents (PCEs) for different types of vehicles to convert the heterogeneous traffic stream into an equivalent stream of passenger cars. This study proposes occupancy time method for the estimation of PCEs for different types of vehicles generally observed at unsignalized intersections in India. PCEs for vehicles executing different movements at unsignalized intersections have been estimated in this study and the dynamic nature of PCEs has also been explored. However, PCEs were found to be statistically similar across different movements and across intersections of different geometry.

Keywords


Heterogeneous Traffic Conditions, Occupancy Time, Passenger Car Equivalents, Unsignalized Intersections.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv114%2Fi06%2F1346-1352