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The Use of Freeway Shoulders to Increase Capacity
Every sector of urban transportation faces the problems of rising costs, limited funds, and depleting resources with which to provide for increasing travel demands. Getting the greatest production out of the existing transportation facilities is the goal of every transportation agency. The Texas State Department of Highways and Public Transportation recently approved for testing the concept of increasing roadway capacity on urban freeways by restripping the mainline pavement with narrower lane widths and encroaching on the shoulder to create one additional lane for travel. Two modified sections of U.S. 59 Southwest Freeway in Houston were selected for study. Before and after data were collected over a four-year period to determine the effectiveness of reconfiguring the surface geometrices of freeways.
The Use of Freeway Shoulders to Increase Capacity
Every sector of urban transportation faces the problems of rising costs, limited funds, and depleting resources with which to provide for increasing travel demands. Getting the greatest production out of the existing transportation facilities is the goal of every transportation agency. The Texas State Department of Highways and Public Transportation recently approved for testing the concept of increasing roadway capacity on urban freeways by restripping the mainline pavement with narrower lane widths and encroaching on the shoulder to create one additional lane for travel. Two modified sections of U.S. 59 Southwest Freeway in Houston were selected for study. Before and after data were collected over a four-year period to determine the effectiveness of reconfiguring the surface geometrices of freeways.
The Use of Freeway Shoulders to Increase Capacity
W. R. McCasland (author)
1978
63 pages
Report
No indication
English
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