Incorporating truck analysis into the Highway capacity manual /

"TRB's National Cooperative Freight Research Program (NCFRP) Report 31: Incorporating Truck Analysis into the Highway Capacity Manual presents capacity and level-of-service techniques to improve transportation agencies' abilities to plan, design, manage, and operate streets and highwa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dowling, Richard G. (Richard Gerhard) (Author)
Corporate Authors:	National Cooperative Freight Research Program (sponsoring body.), United States. Department of Transportation. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology (sponsoring body.)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : Transportation Research Board, 2014.
Series:	NCFRP report ; 31.
Subjects:	Highway capacity. Traffic flow. Trucking. Freight and freightage > Planning.
Online Access:	http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/ncfrp/ncfrp_rpt_031.pdf Blurb

Table of Contents:

section 1. Introduction
section 2. State of public agency practice
section 3. Truck carrier and shipper perspectives
section 4. Literature review
section 5. Recommended HCM truck classification scheme
section 6. Truck level-of-service framework
section 7. Truck level-of-service case studies
section 8. Prediction of freeway truck speeds
section 9. Prediction of arterial truck speeds
section 10. Predicting the effect of trucks on capacity
section 11. Conclusions and recommendations
References
Appendixes A-F.