Llorca Garcia, Carlos; Moreno, A. T.; García García, Alfredo(Institution of Electrical Engineers, 2016)
[EN] Abstract: Overtaking manoeuvre is a key issue for two-lane rural roads. These roads should provide sufficient overtaking sight distance (OSD) at certain locations to allow faster vehicles to pass slower ones. However, ...
Moreno Chou, Ana Tsui; Llorca García, Carlos; Washburn, Scott; Bessa Jr., José Elievam; Hale, David K; García García, Alfredo(John Wiley & Sons, 2016)
[EN] The US Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) methodology is used in Spain to evaluate traffic operation and quality of service. The effect of passing manoeuvre on two-lane highway operational performance is considered through ...
Llorca García, Carlos; Moreno Chou, Ana Tsui; García García, Alfredo; Pérez Zuriaga, Ana María(Aracne editrice, 2014-05)
[EN] Passing maneuvers can be single or multiple, depending on how many vehicles are involved. In a multiple pass, one passing (or fast) vehicle passes at least two impeding (or slow) vehicles, without returning to the own ...
Moreno Chou, Ana Tsui; Llorca Garcia, Carlos; Washburn, Scott; Bessa Jr., José Elievam; García García, Alfredo(Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, 2018-11-09)
[EN] The U.S. Highway Capacity Manual (HCM 2010) methodology is used in Spain to evaluate traffic operation and quality of service. In two-lane undivided highways, the effect of limiting where drivers could pass slower ...
Moreno Chou, Ana Tsui; Llorca García, Carlos; García García, Alfredo; Pérez Zuriaga, Ana María(National Academy of Sciences, 2013)
Most studies on two-lane highway operations have focused on the percentage of following vehicles or the adjustment of the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) procedure to local data. The HCM proposes the length of no-passing ...
Hale, David K.; Antoniou, Constantinos; Brackstone, Mark; Michalaka, Dimitra; Moreno Chou, Ana Tsui; Parikh, Kavita(Elsevier, 2015-06)
Use of traffic simulation has increased in recent decades; and this high-fidelity modelling, along with moving vehicle animation, has allowed transportation decisions to be made with better confidence. During this time, ...
Llorca García, Carlos; Moreno Chou, Ana Tsui; Sayed, Tarek; García García, Alfredo(National Academy of Sciences, 2014)
The paper presents an application of a reliability analysis for evaluating the risk associated with passing sight distance (PSD) standards in terms of the expected probability of noncompliance. Calculation of PSD is required ...
Moreno Chou, Ana Tsui; García García, Alfredo; Romero Rojas, Mario Alfonso(National Academy of Sciences, 2011-07)
More than 50% of injury accidents in Spain take place on crosstown roads in urban areas. Traffic calming is an initiative to reduce the impact of traffic on local streets by lowering both the number and the severity of ...
Moreno Chou, Ana Tsui; García García, Alfredo(Elsevier, 2013-12)
Urban road safety management is usually characterized by the lack of sufficient, good quality crash data and low budgets to obtain it even though many traffic accidents occur there. For example, 54 percent of road crashes ...