Determining Road Lighting Impact on Traffic Stream Characteristics
- 1 Department of Transportation, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Universiti Teknologi, Malaysia
Abstract
The study is aimed at estimating road lighting impact on traffic stream characteristics; flow, speed, density and headway for an uninterrupted traffic flow. Volume, speed and headway data were collected during daylight, road lighting and dry weather conditions. Flowrate, speed, density and headways were estimated for daylight and road lighting periods; then compared. Since flowrate, free-flow speed, optimum speed critical density and headways during daylight and road lighting periods did not differ significantly: the study concluded that road lighting does not affect traffic stream characteristics significantly.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajassp.2013.746.750
Copyright: © 2013 Ben-Edigbe Johnnie and Kurnia Yuli Astrid. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Keywords
- Road Lighting
- Headway
- Flowrate
- Speed
- Density