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  title info:
    title: Comparison of day and night vehicular speeds on horizontal curves on rural two-lane highways
  name:
    name part: Guzman, Jesus
    name part: 1972-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1996
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: remote
    extent: viii, 62 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
  abstract: 16 curves had a significantly higher speed reduction at night
  abstract: accounting for light condition is not needed for operating-
  abstract: and nighttime speeds. However, no discernible pattern for
  abstract: and the speed at the midpoint of the curve. Hypothesis tests
  abstract: approach tangents resulted in the conclusion that a small
  abstract: consistency evaluation.
  abstract: daytime and nighttime speed reduction from the approach
  abstract: difference between the speed at the midpoint of the tangent
  abstract: discernible pattern was evident. Statistical tests of the
  abstract: highways. For each selected curve, daytime and nighttime
  abstract: large percentage of statistically significant differences in
  abstract: magnitude of the difference between daytime and nighttime
  abstract: mean speeds at the midpoint of curves were observed, no
  abstract: nighttime speeds at the midpoint of horizontal curves showed
  abstract: of daytime and nighttime speeds at the midpoint of the
  abstract: operating speeds were measured using piezoelectric sensors.
  abstract: percentage of curves exhibited a difference between daytime
  abstract: significantly different from nighttime speeds. Even though a
  abstract: Speed data was collected in each direction at the midpoint of
  abstract: speedbased profile modeling for horizontal alignment design
  abstract: speeds is small for all degrees of curvature, a variable
  abstract: speeds on rural, two-lane highways. However, because the
  abstract: tangent to the midpoint of the curve showed that five out of
  abstract: than during the day. The results of this research indicate
  abstract: that over half the curves tested had daytime speeds that were
  abstract: that there are some differences between daytime and nighttime
  abstract: the approach tangent and at the midpoint of the curve. A
  abstract: the results could be found. Hypothesis tests of daytime and
  abstract: This thesis documents the research comparing day and night
  abstract: vehicle's speed reduction was then calculated as the
  abstract: vehicular speeds on horizontal curves on rural, two-lane
  note: by Jesus Guzman, Jr.
  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 1996.
  note: Includes bibliographical references: pages 53-55.
  subject:
    topic: Major civil engineering
  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1996-THESIS-G89
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      url: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1996-THESIS-G89
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 970630
    record change date: 20220103134703.0
    record identifier: in00001374830