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TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH RECORD
卷 -, 期 2071, 页码 8-18出版社
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.3141/2071-02
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- FHWA
- the Mid-Atlantic University Transportation Center
- the Virginia Department of Transportation
The research reported in this paper quantifies the impact of inclement weather (precipitation and visibility) on traffic stream behavior and key traffic stream parameters, including free-flow speed, speed at capacity, capacity, and jam density. The analysis is conducted using weather data (precipitation and visibility) and loop detector data (speed, flow, and density) obtained from the Baltimore, Maryland; Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota; and Seattle, Washington, areas in the United States. The precipitation data included intensities up to 1.6 and 0.33 cm/h for rain and water equivalent of snow intensity, respectively. The paper demonstrates that the traffic stream jam density is not affected by weather conditions. Snow results in larger reductions in traffic stream free-flow speed and capacity when compared with rain. Reductions in roadway capacity are not affected by the precipitation intensity except in the case of snow. Reductions in free-flow speed and speed at capacity increase as the rain and snow intensities increase. Finally, the paper also develops free-flow speed, speed-at-capacity, and capacity weather adjustment factors that are multiplied by the base clear-condition variables to compute inclement weather parameters. These adjustment factors vary as a function of the precipitation type, precipitation intensity, and visibility level. It is intended that these adjustment factors be incorporated into the Highway Capacity Manual.
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