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A Study on Lane Width Design for Road Diets  

Do, Chung-Hyun (대구대학교 일반대학원 토목공학과)
Lee, Young-Woo (대구대학교 토목공학과)
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International Journal of Highway Engineering / v.12, no.1, 2010 , pp. 71-78 More about this Journal
Abstract
Rapid urbanization causes a variety of transportation problems, including traffic delay. Then transportation engineers would get involved in trying to solve traffic delay through road constructed and uncongested policy. But lately, traffic policy changed from vehicle-dominated to humandominated and green transportation. Road diet is one of green transportation. Road diets reduce the number of lanes, lane width because supplement space for green transportation including a bicycle road, side-walk, etc. A study on road diets not enough then this study performed a basic study for road diets. This study on lane width reduce for road diets through analyzes sway of moving vehicle. This study results shows lane width of a compacts-size car needs 2.34~2.70m and lane width of a full-size car needs 2.62~2.89m. According to this study lane width can reduce therefore lane width design criterion have to be relieved. This study will be used in a road width reduce including a road diets, road in process of construction and so on.
Keywords
lane width; road diet; green transportation; road design;
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