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Chapter 14 1
Chapter 14: Basic Freeway Segments and Multilane Highways
Estimate (determine) the speed of a basic freeway or a multilane under prevailing conditions
Determine flow rate and density Obtain proper passenger-car equivalents for trucks, buses, and
RVs (Grade affects the performance of these vehicles) Conduct operational and planning analyses for the basic
freeway and multilane highway segments
Chapter objectives: By the end of these chapters the student will be able to:
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14.1 Facility Types
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14.2 Basic freeway and multilane highway characteristics
Basic freeway segments: Segments of the freeway that are outside of the influence area of ramps or weaving areas.
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14.2.1 Basic freeway and multilane highway characteristics
(This is Figure 14.2 for basic freeway segments)
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14.2.1 continued
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(For multilane highways)
Fig 14.3 Base Speed-Flow Curves for Multilane Highways
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Fig 14.3 Base Speed-Flow Curves for Multilane Highways
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14.2.2 Level of Service
LOS C or D
LOS B
LOS A
LOS E or F
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14.2.3 Service flow rates and capacity
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14.3 Analysis methodologies
Most capacity analysis models include the determination of capacity under ideal roadway, traffic, and control conditions, that is, after having taken into account adjustments for prevailing conditions.
Multilane highways
12-ft lane width, 6-ft lateral clearance, all vehicles are passenger cars, familiar drivers, free-flow speeds = 60 mph. Divided. Zero access points. Capacity used is usually average per lane (see slide 9)
Min. lane widths of 12 feet
Min. right-shoulder lateral clearance of 6 feet (median 2 ft)
Traffic stream consisting of passenger cars only
Ten or more lanes (in urban areas only)
Interchanges spaced every 2 miles or more
Level terrain, with grades no greater than 2%, length affects
Driver population dominated by regular and familiar users
Basic freeway segments
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Prevailing condition types considered (p.291):
Lane width
Lateral clearances
Type of median (multilane highways)
Frequency of interchanges (freeways) or access points (multilane highways)
Presence of heavy vehicles in the traffic stream
Driver populations dominated by occasional or unfamiliar users of a facility
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Factors affecting: examples
Drivers shy away from concrete barriers
Trucks occupy more space: length and gap
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14.3.1 Types of analysis
Operational analysis (Determine speed and flow rate, then density and LOS)
Service flow rate and service volume analysis (for desired LOS) MSF = Max service flow rate
Design analysis (Find the number of lanes needed to serve desired MSF)
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Service flow rates vs. service volumes
What is used for analysis is service flow rate. The actual number of vehicles that can be served during one peak hour is service volume. This reflects the peaking characteristic of traffic flow.
SVi = SFi * PHF
Stable flow
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Sample operational analysis
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S = 65 - 0.00001418 (1800 – 1400)2 = 62.7 mph
1800 pc/h/lnFFS=65 mph
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14.3.2 (cont.)Adjustment to free-flow speed on a freeway
84.022.34.75 TRDffFFS LCLW
TRD = Total number of on- and off-ramps within ±3 miles of the midpoint of the study segment, divided by 6 miles.
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14.3.2 (cont.)Adjustment to free-flow speed on a multilane highway
AMLCLWi ffffBFFSFFS
fLW: use Table 14.5
Read p.294 right column carefully.
BFFSi: Read p.294 left column, bottom (and slide #16).
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Choosing a free-flow speed curve (p.296)
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Not recommended to interpolate. So, this table was given. This table is for both freeways and multilane highways.
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Examples for determining FFSs
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14.3.3 Determining the heavy-vehicle factor
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PP = percent passenger cars
PT = percent trucks & buses
PR = percent recreational vehicles (RVs)
ET = PCE for trucks and buses
ER = PCE for RVs
Grade and slope length affects the values of ET and ER.
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How we deal with long, sustaining grades… (p.298)
Extended segments
Type of Terrain
Level Rolling Mountains
ET (trucks & buses) 1.5 2.5 4.5
ER (RVs) 1.2 2.0 4.0
There are 3 ways to deal with long, sustaining grades: extended general freeway segments, specific upgrades, and specific downgrades.
(1) Extended segments: where no one grade of 3% or greater is longer than ¼ mi or where no one grade of less than 3% is longer than ½ mi. And for planning analysis. (p.298, left column)
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How we deal with long, sustaining grades…(cont)
(2) Specific upgrades: Any freeway grade of more than ½ mi for grades less than 3% or ¼ mi for grades of 3% or more. (For a composite grade, refer to page 299 right column.) Use the tables for ET and ER for specific grades.
(3) Specific downgrades:
If the downgrade is not severe enough to cause trucks to shift into low gear, treat it as a level terrain segment, ET = 1.5.
Otherwise, use the table for downgrade ET
For RVs, downgrades may be treated as level terrain, ER = 1.2.
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Tables for PCE for specific grades
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When using these look-up tables, care must be taken to observe the boundary condition.
Upper boundaries are “Closed” in these tables.
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Example for using specific grades
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Average grade or composite grade? (p.299)
In a basic freeway segment analysis, an overall average grade can be substituted for a series of grades if no single portion of the grade is steeper than 4% or the total length of the grade is less than 4,000 ft. (See the example in p.300 right column.)
For grades outside these limits, the composite grade procedure is recommended. The composite grade procedure is used to determine an equivalent grade that will result in the same final truck speed as used to determine an equivalent grade that will result in the same final truck speed as would a series of varying grades. (page 301-302: read these pages carefully for strength and weakness of this method)
For analysis purposes, the impact of a grade is worst at the end of its steepest (uphill) section. (e.g. if 4000 ft of 4% grade were followed by 1000 ft of 3% grade, passenger-car equivalents would be found for a 4000 ft, 4%. Chapter-end Problem 14-3(c) is this case.) But, what if 1000 ft of 4% and 1000 ft of 3%?
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Composite grade (Read p.302 for explanation of the steps.)
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3% grade 3000 ft followed by 5% grade 5000 ft Find the equivalent (composite) grade.
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14.3.4 Determining the driver population factor
Not well established Between a value of 1.00 for commuters to
0.85 as a lower limit for other driver populations
Usually 1.00 If there are many unfamiliar drivers use a
value between 1.00 and 0.85 For a future situation 0.85 is suggested
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Planning analysis (or design analysis)
You want to find out how many lanes are needed for the targeted level of service.
Step 1: Find fHV using for ET and ER.
Step 2: Try 2 lanes in each direction, unless it is obvious that more lanes will be needed.
Step 3: Convert volume (vph) to flow rate (pcphpl), vp, for the current number of lanes in each direction.
Step 4: If vp exceeds capacity, add one lane in each direction and return to Step 2.
Step 5: Compute FFS.
Step 6: Determine the LOS for the freeway with the current number of lanes being considered. If the LOS is not good enough, add another lane and return to Step 3.
See Example 14-7
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14.4 Sample Problems
We will review the manual method and HCS2010 on Friday.
14.5 Calibration issues
I recommend you to read it. It will be helpful when you want to use local values (Remember HCS values are national average values).