Author(s)

Y. Makigami & R. Kasama

Abstract

One of the prime objectives of the study is to evaluate the differences between the night-time and the day-time merging traffic stream characteristics by analyzing the merging traffic survey data covering night-time and day-time as well as congested and non-congested traffic conditions. A previously developed merging traffic computation model considering multi-merging phenomena was applied to evaluate the traffic in terms of merging probability. 1 Background and objectives of study Traffic congestion on urban expressways in Japan increases annually because of heavy traffic demand. Urban expressways have very com- plicated networks with many radial and ring roads and consequently there are many weaving, merging and diver

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