A general method for the determination of the capacity of highway intersections controlled with traffic signs

Abstract

The measurements performed in practice with the aim of revealing the rules of traffic flow are very limited in time and extremely expensive, too, and therefore they are suitable only for the short-time observation and analysis of traffic. Today these difficulties can already be eliminated with the help of the up-to-date computing technique and its advanced hardware base. Traffic situation changing arbitrarily can be created on a plain roadway of arbitrary cross-section, or in an intersection of arbitrary complexity, respectively, on the basis of which examination of any optional difficulty can be carried out. In the following. the algorithms and the program developed for this special purpose will be introduced. Using it the capacity and the traffic flow conflicts could be estimated analysed with the arrangement and control system of intersections.