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  title info:
    title: Validation of and enhancements to an operating-speed-based geometric design consistency evaluation model
  name:
    name part: Collins, Kent Michael
    name part: 1971-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1995
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: remote
    extent: viii, 63 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
  abstract: 0.85 M/S2 is reasonable for the purposes of this model.
  abstract: 85th percentile speed on tangents is not statistically
  abstract: 85th percentile speeds revealed that the current speed-
  abstract: acceleration and deceleration behavior of drivers approaching
  abstract: acceleration and deceleration on curves and their tangents
  abstract: acceleration and deceleration rates indicate that the
  abstract: acceleration and deceleration rates revealed that adjustments
  abstract: alignment, especially in and near curves. Tests of mean
  abstract: and analysis procedures used to analyze operating speeds,
  abstract: and departing horizontal curves. Detailed data collection
  abstract: are presented. Hypothesis tests of mean observed and
  abstract: assumption of equal acceleration and deceleration rates at
  abstract: consistency evaluation procedure: (1) the speed reduction
  abstract: different from the assumed desired speed on tangents (97.9
  abstract: different from the estimated mean reduction in operating
  abstract: estimated speed reductions resulted in the conclusion that,
  abstract: estimation ability of the model, and (2) assumptions about
  abstract: for curves with no downstream intersections, the mean
  abstract: Further research is needed to confirm this conclusion. The
  abstract: Hypothesis tests of mean observed 85th percentile speeds on
  abstract: in acceleration and deceleration take place throughout an
  abstract: km/h) at a 0.05 significance level. Inspection of implied
  abstract: observed reduction in operating speed is not statistically
  abstract: profile model fits the observed data reasonably well.
  abstract: related to an operating-speed-based geometric design
  abstract: results of this thesis support the continued use of the model
  abstract: speed at a 0.05 significance level. Analysis of observed
  abstract: tangents resulted in the conclusion that the mean observed
  abstract: This thesis documents efforts to validate two elements
  abstract: until further research is conducted to enhance the model
  note: by Kent Michael Collins.
  note: "Major subject: Civil Engineering".
  note: Vita.
  note: Also available online.
  note: Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.
  note: M.S. Texas A&M University 1995.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Major civil engineering
  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1995-THESIS-C654
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      url: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1995-THESIS-C654
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 960709
    record change date: 20220103134227.0
    record identifier: in00001310208