| Author | Tsoan, Wu |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.GT-78-34 |
| Subject(s) | Roads--Huay Kwang--Interchanges and intersections
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| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the Degree of Master of Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | The study dealt with the determination of the merging characteristics of traffic entering from an entrance ramp, and evaluation of the experiment
on the effect of the funneling of the two lanes of the ramp into single lane entry. A photographic technique, in combination with 20-pen graphic recorder, was used to collect the field data. It was found that 3.1 sec and 3.4 sec were the critical gaps for the inside and outside lanes of the
two-lane on-ramp, respectively. The funneling of the existing two-lanes of the ramp into a single-lane entry greatly reduced the percentage of ramp
vehicles crossing over into the median lane of two-lane expressway and apparently resulted in smoother merging performance. It is hoped that .these findings may be of interest in the design of entrance ramps of interchanges in Thailand. |
| Year | 1979 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Engineering and Technology |
| Department | Department of Civil and Infrastucture Engineering (DCIE) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Geotechnical and Transportation Engineering (GT) |
| Chairperson(s) | Jones, John Hugh
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| Examination Committee(s) | Holmberg, Soren ;Marler, N.W.
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| Scholarship Donor(s) | Government of Republic of China |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1979 |