Review on Analysis and Design of Intersection

Civil Engineering

The extreme growth rates of automobiles have caused considerable traffic overcrowding on roads and intersections and it worsens at peak time traffic. An intersection which is not well designed, particularly traffic flow on state highways with high speed, when mixed up with local traffic at crossings, traffic congestion is likely to occur. This causes many negative effects like pollution, delay and improper traffic management at crossings. Intersections represent potentially dangerous locations from point of view of traffic safety. It’s believed that well over half the fatal and serious road accidents in built-up areas occur at junctions, Therefore, it is essential to design or re-design the intersections in a further reasonable way. The basic methods considered for the design includes the principles of Uniformity and Simplicity, Minimizing conflict points and smoothing the traffic flow are possible by means of space and time sharing. The purpose of this paper is to review a number of methods that encompass of design of intersection. And it helps intersection design and evaluation of different design options’ suitability and checks the intersection’s performance.

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