@article{ref1,
title="An innovative design for left turn bicycles at continuous flow intersections",
journal="Transportmetrica B: transport dynamics",
year="2019",
author="Zhao, Jing and Gao, Xing and Knoop, Victor L.",
volume="7",
number="1",
pages="1305-1322",
abstract="To improve the practical capacity of the continuous flow intersections (CFI) and eliminate the conflict between left-turn bicycles and through vehicles, an optimization design method for left-turn bicycles was proposed. The pre-stop line for through vehicles and the crossing passage for left-turn bicycles were set at the pre-signal points of the CFI. The control of the through vehicles at pre-signal was added in the proposed method. A linear programming model was established to achieve the maximum vehicular practical capacity. The optimization effectiveness and applicability for this design were validated by a case study and sensitivity analyses. The results show that the improvements in practical capacity obtained by the proposed method increase with the increase of the left-turn bicycles volume and through vehicle percentage, while decrease with longer cycle length. As for bicycles, the proposed method can reduce the delay in the case of high traffic demand.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2168-0566",
doi="10.1080/21680566.2019.1614496",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21680566.2019.1614496"
}