@article{ref1,
title="Effect of night-time rain on travel speed at two-lane highway without lights",
journal="Transportation research procedia",
year="2020",
author="Makinde, Oluyemisi and Ben-Edigbe, Johnnie",
volume="48",
number="",
pages="747-755",
abstract="Speed is one of the parameters used for performance measure of traffic. It is affected by weather changes. This paper investigates the effect of night-time rainfall on travel speed on two-lane highway without lights. Traffic and rainfall data were collected at four different sites in Nigeria for a period of eight weeks. The data were sorted into dry and rainy night-time, filtered and analysed. The use of flow-density relationship gives a better understanding of travel speed within traffic stream operation. The result of the study shows significant change in travel speed between the dry and rainy night-time conditions. The average travel speed reduction was observed to be 3.4%, 6.8% and 10.2% for light, moderate and heavy rain at night-time respectively. This confirms that travel speed reduces under night-time rainfall irrespective of its intensity.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2352-1465",
doi="10.1016/j.trpro.2020.08.076",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2020.08.076"
}