Abstract:
Recent empirical observations at freeway merge bottlenecks have revealed (i) a drop in the bottleneck discharge rate when queues form upstream, (ii) an increase in lane-changing maneuvers simultaneous with this “capacity drop”, and (iii) a reversal of the drop when the ramp is metered.
Publication date:
January 1, 2007
Publication type:
Conference Paper
Citation:
Laval, J., Cassidy, M., & Daganzo, C. (2007). Impacts of Lane Changes at Merge Bottlenecks: A Theory and Strategies to Maximize Capacity. In A. Schadschneider, T. Pöschel, R. Kühne, M. Schreckenberg, & D. E. Wolf (Eds.), Traffic and Granular Flow’05 (pp. 577–586). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-47641-2_56