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An Observational Study on the Driver Behaviours at Long Tangent Sections Followed by Sharp Horizontal Curve  

Kim, Yong-Seok (한국건설기술연구원 도로연구부)
Cho, Won-Bum (한국건설기술연구원 도로연구부)
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Journal of Korean Society of Transportation / v.22, no.7, 2004 , pp. 139-146 More about this Journal
Abstract
Road design should be conformed to the expectancy of drivers. The alignment such as long tangent followed by the sharp horizontal curve should be avoided for the road design consistency. Currently, operating speed profile model is generally used to check the consistency of the successive road alignments. In this model, the hypothesis about the drivers' behaviour on the long tangent followed by the sharp horizontal curve is also included. This study compares the hypothesized drivers' behaviour in the existing operating speed profile model with the actual drivers' behaviour observed at the two lane rural roads. In addition to this, comparison between the acceleration for the vehicles approaching and departing horizontal curves suggested by the foreign research and the value observed at this study was made, From this study, it was concluded that the hypothesis in the existing model was well representing the actual drivers' behaviour. The deceleration for vehicles approaching the horizontal curves was ranged $0.39{\sim}1.06m/s^2$ with the average of $0.66m/s^2$. The average acceleration for the vehicles departing horizontal curves was $0.22m/s^2$.
Keywords
도로 설계;선형 안전성;연결선형;주행속도;주행속도 프로파일;
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