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Description - Two-lane Highway Traffic Operations by John R McLean

This book brings together, for the first time in a single volume, the extensive theoretical and empirical research on two-lane traffic flow. The topics covered include traditional traffic capacity analysis methods, mathematical theory of two-lane flow, use of computer simulation, empirical speed-flow-geometry relations, overtaking behaviour and slow vehicle impedance, while the book concludes with outlines of new methods for analyzing and improving two-lane flow performance. Throughout the book, there is underlying emphasis on the flow process, particularly the mechanisms of catching-up, platooning and overtaking. To this end, a chapter is devoted to the mathematical treatment of two-lane flow, stressing concepts and interpretations rather than mathematical derivations. Similarly, results of driver overtaking behaviour studies are examined and compared in the context of gap-acceptance theory, resulting in the emergence of a reasonably consistent picture. The understanding of the flow process leads to design treatments for improving traffic flow on two-lane highways, particularly the provision of auxiliary lanes that increase overtaking opportunity.
The book is an invaluable resource for academics, graduate students and research engineers/scientists in traffic operations and for practising highway engineers concerned with the planning, design and operation of two-lane highways.

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