dc.contributor.author | Chung, Cady C. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Gartner, Nathan H. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2004-05-28T19:34:01Z | |
dc.date.available | 2004-05-28T19:34:01Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1973-03 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5329 | |
dc.description.abstract | Acceleration Noise measures the disutility associated with successive decelerations and accelerations in a signalized environment. It provides an indication of the smoothness of traffic flow. As such it constitutes a generalization of the number-of-stops concept and is suitable to replace it as an additive measure-of-effectiveness for designing and evaluating the operation of traffic control systems. This report develops models for calculating the acceleration noise incurred by a platoon of vehicles travelling along a signal-controlled traffic link. Several flow patterns are analyzed: discrete arrivals, uniformcontinuous arrivals and variable-continuous arrivals. A computer program and test results are described. The models can be easily extended for use in signal- controlled networks. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | Research supported by KLD Associates, Inc., in connection with Department of Transportation Contract FH-11-7924. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 1746 bytes | |
dc.format.extent | 1426790 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Operations Research Center | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Operations Research Center Working Paper;OR 015-73 | en_US |
dc.title | Acceleration Noise as a Measure of Effectiveness in the Operation of Traffic Control System | en_US |
dc.type | Working Paper | en_US |