Research in Layout of Pavement Markings in Freeway Merging Area
- DOI
- 10.2991/ifmeita-16.2016.176How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- freeway, pavement markings, gap acceptance theory, merging area, acceleration lane
- Abstract
Currently, Chinese standards on pavement markings are unable to avoid the situation that the ramp vehicles in low speed merge to mainline prematurely without enough acceleration. The large speed difference could cause serious traffic accidents. When compared the Chinese standards with MUTCD in American, Chinese standards lack the provision of solid white line installed from the theoretical gore and extended downstream in freeway merging area as to prohibit the early merging maneuver. Therefore, this paper analyzed the characteristics of traffic stream in merging area and principle of designing acceleration lane length in China, proposed an algorithm for designing length of the solid white line with gap acceptance theory, and a demonstrating example was given.
- Copyright
- © 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Junchen Dai AU - Qiaojun Xiang PY - 2016/01 DA - 2016/01 TI - Research in Layout of Pavement Markings in Freeway Merging Area BT - Proceedings of the 2016 International Forum on Management, Education and Information Technology Application PB - Atlantis Press SP - 968 EP - 975 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/ifmeita-16.2016.176 DO - 10.2991/ifmeita-16.2016.176 ID - Dai2016/01 ER -