Developing passenger-car equivalents for heavy vehicles in entry flow at roundabouts

C Lee - Journal of Transportation Engineering, 2015 - ascelibrary.org
This study develops passenger-car equivalents (PCEs) for heavy vehicles at roundabouts.
For this task, the movements of cars and heavy vehicles were observed using video records …

Passenger car equivalents for heavy vehicles at roundabouts: estimation and application to capacity prediction

C Lee - 2014 - trid.trb.org
This study develops passenger car equivalents (PCEs) for heavy vehicles (trucks) at
roundabouts and predicts the entry capacity using PCEs. The capacity and circulating flow …

Empirical estimation of capacity for roundabouts using adjusted gap-acceptance parameters for trucks

J Dahl, C Lee - Transportation research record, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
This study examines the effect of heavy vehicles (trucks) on the entry capacity of
roundabouts. Vehicle movements were observed at 11 roundabouts in Vermont, Wisconsin …

Prediction of capacity for roundabouts based on percentages of trucks in entry and circulating flows

C Lee, MN Khan - Transportation research record, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
The objective of this study was to estimate capacity at roundabouts by developing a method
to adjust gap acceptance parameters for trucks. Because drivers' gap acceptance behavior …

[PDF][PDF] Incorporating exiting vehicles in capacity estimation at single-lane US roundabouts

Y Mereszczak, M Dixon, M Kyte, LA Rodegerdts… - 2005 - onlinepubs.trb.org
The current model used in the US to predict approach capacity at a single-lane roundabout
utilizes information about entry driver behavior in relation to the circulating stream of traffic …

An analysis of heavy vehicle impact on roundabout entry capacity in Japan

N Kang, H Nakamura - Transportation research procedia, 2016 - Elsevier
Heavy vehicles behave differently from ordinary passenger cars due to their characteristics
such as size and operational performance. At roundabout, entry capacity estimation mainly …

Impact of including exiting vehicles in single-lane roundabout capacity models

W Suh, C Barry, L Schmitt, J Anderson… - Transportation …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Roundabouts are classified as alternative intersection forms because they provide
operational conditions not found at conventional intersections (eg, a low-speed environment …

Including exiting vehicles in capacity estimation at single-lane US roundabouts

Y Mereszczak, M Dixon, M Kyte… - Transportation …, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
The current model used in the United States to predict approach capacity at a single-lane
roundabout uses information about entry driver behavior in response to the circulating traffic …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating passenger car equivalent of heavy vehicles at roundabout entry using micro-traffic simulation

R Pajecki, F Ahmed, X Qu, X Zheng, Y Yang… - Frontiers in Built …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Passenger Car Equivalent (PCE) is a unit used to represent the impact of a large vehicle on
a road by expressing it as the number of equivalent passenger vehicles. This paper focuses …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of heavy vehicle headways in oversaturated interrupted conditions: Towards development of passenger car equivalency factors

MS Ghanim, G Abu-Lebdeh - International journal of transportation science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Passenger car equivalency (PCE) of heavy trucks is often studied using filed observation
and microscopic simulation models, especially for signalized intersections. While the …