Roundabouts and emergency evacuation 2012.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
Transportation Research Board,
2012.
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| Series: | Transportation research record ;
2312. |
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| Online Access: | Free access for TRB sponsors only Publisher's summary Publisher's summary |
| Abstract: | "This issue contains 17 papers, 8 concerned with roundabouts and 9 concerned with emergency evacuation. The following aspects of roundabouts are examined: crash prediction model for roundabouts on high-speed rural roadways; vehicular capacity at multilane roundabouts with consideration of pedestrian crossings; public perceptions of roundabouts; estimating roundabout capacity; vehicle travel position on roundabouts in cold regions; estimating vehicle delay on single-lane roundabouts; driver responses to pedestrian treatments at multilane roundabouts; and delay analysis of a single-lane roundabout with a slip lane. The papers on emergency evacuation examine the following: modeling emergency evacuation; changes in evacuation decisions between hurricanes Ivan and Katrina; dynamic traffic assignment evaluation of hurricane evacuation strategies; turning angle effect on pedestrian emergency egress; travel time reliability during evacuation; modeling hurricane evacuation demand; hurricane evacuee route choice decisions; bus contraflow lane in freeway evacuation; and modeling risk attitudes in evacuation departure choices"--publishers summary. |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 163 pages : illustrations, charts ; 28 cm. Individual TRR papers are available online. TRB sponsors have free access to the full-texts. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780309263108 0309263107 |
| ISSN: | 0361-1981 ; |