An investigation of freeway capacity before and during incidents

C Lu, L Elefteriadou
2013 Transportation letters  
Data Analysis Procedure a. Data Screening and Incident Categorization  Remove adverse weather and missing or erroneous observations  Incident verification: by speed and occupancy time series plots  Incidents categorization: -incidents occurring before congestion -incidents occurring during congestion -incidents occurring downstream  Three-lane freeways is more productive in terms of per lane capacity -might due to lane-changing behavior  Breakdown flow is generally higher than the average
more » ... ischarge flow  Breakdown flow has the largest range of values, while average discharge flow the smallest range of values. R-square 0.49 Root MSE 293.20
doi:10.1179/1942786713z.00000000016 fatcat:mtuqbcr63re3jkbdjryetgsq4a