Abstract
The effect of traffic factors on the capacity of a traffic signal approach is usually allowed for by the use of weighting factors, referred to as ‘passenger car units’, assigned to differing vehicle categories. As a consequence the saturation flow of a signal approach or of a single approach lane is expressed in passenger car units per hour (pcu/h).
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R. M. Kimber, M. McDonald and N. B. Hounsell, The prediction of saturation flows for road junctions controlled by traffic signals, Research Report 67, Transport and Road Research Laboratory, Crowthorne (1986)
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Salter, R.J. (1989). The effect of traffic factors on the capacity of a traffic signal approach. In: Highway Traffic Analysis and Design. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20014-6_34
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